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Preventative Care
Just touched on this in the previous point, but prevention really is better than cure. You take your car to be serviced regularly, why not your body? Is your body not more valuable than your car? Take advantage and use what you have to enhance your wellbeing even more. Many top athletes and even stars regularly get chiropractic adjustments for example. Even Kim Kardashian once tweeted “Chiropractors really are life savers! I didn’t really believe in them before but now I’m obsessed!”
Pain Relief
Of course, most importantly if you are in pain right now and you’ve just been putting it off and off and off! We see so many patients who do that, they struggle with their pain, but hope it will go away or are too busy to do anything about it. That niggling pain left untreated will probably develop into something worse and you’ll end up spending more time getting it treated. And the longer you leave it, the less time you’ll have to use all your visits which means you may well likely eat into next years allocation.
Remember, your visits expire at the end of the year. You will get more next year, but none get rolled over. This means the longer you wait for treatment the more likely it will be you eat into next years. And if you eat up many visits early in the year, you have less for the remainder of the year if any other problems surface later on.
We hope this information has helped and given you something to think about. As we said, we’ve already seen patients coming in to take advantage of their visits. Why don’t you join them?
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Dr Shan Sivendra MD is the founder and medical director of Back and Body Medical in Midtown Manhattan. A board-certified medical doctor, certified acupuncturist, and Director of House Physicians at St. Barnabas Medical Center, Dr Sivendra has been practicing in New York since 1995.
He completed his residency in Internal Medicine at Saint Barnabas Medical Center (affiliated with Mount Sinai School of Medicine) and received the Resident Research Award for three consecutive years.
Dr Sivendra has a background spanning internal medicine, pain management, and conservative spine rehabilitation, and was licensed in both the US and the UK.
At Back and Body Medical, he leads a multidisciplinary team of chiropractors, physical therapists, and acupuncturists dedicated to helping patients recover from pain without surgery or unnecessary medication.
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