Thank you to our patients, family, friends, and supporters of our practice for voting us "Best Chiropractors" in the 2024 Times Leader Best of the Best Awards. This is our 11th consecutive year winning this award! We are proud to continue to offer the best service and most complete care in NEPA.
Dr. Haydu has been certified in the use of the Functional Movement Screen (FMS) and the Selective Functional Movement Assessment (SFMA) by Functional Movement Systems. The FMS and SFMA is a body movement screen that allows the doctor to assess painful conditions of the spine and extremities. Based on the results of the screen, the doctors can provide a more accurate diagnosis, effective treatment, and/or prescription for corrective exercise. This examination is widely used in the NFL, NHL, and many other professional and collegiate sports programs to evaluate athletes to prevent potential injuries. We are currently the only facility in NEPA to offer these examinations. Call us today to setup your FMS or SFMA screens for yourself or your sports team.
New research published in Spine has revealed that receiving monthly maintenance chiropractic care for chronic low back pain results in significantly greater improvements in pain levels and disability. The clinical journal Spine is one of the premiere research publications for the study of the human spine and it's associated conditions. The study examined the effects of once a month maintenance visits, following an exacerbation of a chronic complaint, using chiropractic manipulation to the low back. Patients reported decreased pain and disability scores on outcome surveys done during and after the one year study period. In addition to decreased pain levels, the patients in the treatment maintenance group also had increased and sustained increases in range of motion in their spines. This study joins an increasing body of evidence recommending regular spinal check ups with chiropractic care, especially for the chronic back pain sufferer.
Dr. Haydu has recently been recredentialed for his board certification with the American Chiropractic Rehab Board. Dr. Haydu is one of less than 200 chiropractors nationwide that holds this credential. Dr. Cohen currently holds board certification in chiropractic orthopedics which makes our clinic the only in NEPA with two doctors holding board certification from the major chiropractic speciality boards.
The Journal of Manual and Physiologic Therapeutics (JMPT) has published a study showing that the medical costs for the treatment of back pain, when the initial contact for the complaint was a chiropractor, was 40% lower thatn the costs for standard medical care for the same diagnosis. The study examined over 85,000 individuals with back pain over a 2 year period that were insured by Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Tennessee. This study joins a growing body of evidence supporting the cost effectiveness of chiropractic care in an era of runaway health care costs. It also represents the treatment effectiveness of chiropractic technique, which often allows a patient to avoid prescription drugs and surgery.
Dr.'s Cohen and Haydu are certified in Graston Technique (GT). GT is an instrument assisted soft tissue management system for the treatment of acute and chronic muscle, tendon, or ligament injuries. GT has been shown in the clinical literature to be a safe and effective treatment for injury recovery and rehabilitation. Graston has become popular worldwide and is used by more than 180 professional and amateur sports organizations. Please visit www.grastontechnique.com for more information.
A recent study at Duke University demonstrated that 30 minutes of brisk exercise is as effective as medication for the relief of depression, and, keeps depression symptoms from returning. Before prescribing expensive and potentially dangerous medication, physicians should first recommend exercise and also check for low blood sugar and hypothyroidism, two conditions that can produce depressive symptoms. The Archives of General Psychiatry states that more than 10 percent of Americans now take antidepressants, double the rate since 1996. Interestingly, more than half of those prescriptions are for problems other than depression including back pain, nerve pain, fatigue, or sleep difficulties; symptoms that have been proven to be effectively treated with exercise!
The Foundation for Chiropractic Progress (www.f4cp.com) is proud to present one of the most significant reports regarding the cost effectiveness and clinical efficacy of chiropractic care in the history of the profession. Prepared by two distinguished and globally renowned medical researchers, the esteemed authors Niteesh Choudhry, MD, PhD of Harvard Medical School and Arnold Milstein, MD of Mercer Health and Benefits, San Francisco, CA, developed this authoritative report which reviews the existing peer reviewed literature and arrives at the following conclusions:
Research from the Mayo Clinic has shown that patients with chronic pain are highly deficient in Vitamin D and, as a result, use twice the over the counter and prescription dosages of pain medication.
