Patients with Painful Conditions Now Have a New Nonsurgical Option
Personal Injury patients for whom traditional chiropractic techniques are not effective have a new nonsurgical option, recently introduced by Dr. Jason Hawkins, D.C. The unique new approach that Dr. Hawkins offers is manipulation under anesthesia and is a unique treatment that falls between traditional chiropractic manual manipulation and surgery. Dr. Hawkins is one of a very small number of chiropractors certified to work with patients under anesthesia.
For patients with injuries that cause constant pain traditional chiropractic treatments are often too painful to endure. Factors such as scar tissue in muscles, damage to the shoulder joint or other complications from injury can create this unbearable pain from manipulation. When confronted the inability to endure such treatment patients often opt for surgical solutions to their injuries without realizing that there are other nonsurgical options available. With Dr. Hawkins’ chiropractic manipulation under anesthesia approach the chiropractor is able to accomplish treatment that would be impossible without anesthesia due to the body’s natural resistance to the pain caused by manipulation. Performed as an outpatient procedure over the course of three days this manipulation under anesthesia is attended by a medical doctor, an anesthesiologist and two chiropractors and can prevent a patient from undergoing an unnecessary surgery.
Candidates for manipulation under anesthesia are carefully screened and have an MRI preformed and analyzed to be sure that this is the correct procedure. Dr. Hawkins explains that this is not the correct procedure for every patient or every injury. He expands that perhaps 1%-5% of patients are candidates. Patients for whom manipulation under anesthesia is a correct option have already been receiving traditional medical treatment, chiropractic treatment or physical therapy and have reached a point of stagnation in their healing progress. When a patient is an appropriate candidate for the manipulation under anesthesia health insurance can cover the procedure.
