When you do something well, word travels fast

When you do something well, word travels fast and that is exactly how Joe heard about the Busch Chiropractic Center.  Joe had definitely heard about Busch Chiropractic Pain Center, and even though he lived 2.5 hours away, he was willing to make the drive, if Dr. Busch thought he could help Joe.  Joe had suffered [...]

Insurance Benefits – “Don’t Make Sense”

Perhaps the one point of the new healthcare law that most every consumer could agree on was the requirement that all insurance plans would have clear and concise summaries of coverage; summaries that just about anyone could understand.  Now, that may be no longer be the case. Consumer advocate groups such AARP, the American Cancer Society, [...]

Mandatory Medicaid Expansion and Individual Mandates are Coming!

Twenty-six states, including Indiana,  and an independent business group filed a brief Tuesday.  They are challenging the portion of the healthcare reform law that mandates (coerces) states – by the loss of their federal funding – into expanding their Medicaid programs.  The fight against the mandatory expansion (the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act)  of Medicaid [...]

Sciatic pain is a sympton of a low back problem

Sciatica or sciatic pain is symptom of a back problem, and it is not a diagnosis of the actual problem itself. Sciatic pain refers to pain along the length of the sciatic nerve, the largest nerve in the body. The sciatic nerve branches off your spine at the pelvis and travels down each leg. A [...]

Can artificial sweeteners cause weight gain?

A study in the  Journal of Behavioral Neuroscience shows that artificial sweeteners such as Saccharin and Sucralose do not prevent weight gain, and the artificial sweeteners creates  physiological and hormonal responses that actually make you gain weight. The study was done with rats; by giving two different groups of rats a yogurt diet.  One rat [...]

What will be the policy of the policy?

The following five insurance companies, UnitedHealth Group, Wellpoint, Aetna, Humana and Cigna — cover 42.3 million people, or about 17 percent of the health insurance in American.  These major insurance companies have prospered by expanding into government programs such as Medicare and Medicaid.  In the last three years, their revenues jumped from 36 percent to 42 [...]

New painkiller causes major worries

Four pharmaceutical makers are developing a stronger version of hydrocodone – the second most abused pain medication in the US.  The first most abused is Oxycodone. Experts on addiction are very worried that this will create even more abuse of pain pills; addicts could crush the product for a potentially lethal high.  The president of [...]

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!

Busch Chiropractic Pain Center will be closing Thursday afternoon through Monday. Have a safe and happy celebration.  Wishing for light snow for a white Christmas.  

What is Cervical Radiculopathy?

Cervical Radiculopathy is a term that describes radiating nerve pain that can start with a disc problem such as herniated or degenerative discs in your neck (cervical) area.  Your pain can run down into your shoulder, into your arm and on into your hands and fingers.  Along with the pain, you can also experience numbness, [...]

Low back pain, leg pain and hip pain no longer rules George’s life. Thanks to the DRS Protocol™!

George started having intense low back pain, leg pain and hip pain over a year ago.  It happened when he tried to start his lawn mower.  At times, his pain was bad enough pain (5/10) that he was devouring Ibuprofen.  The pain was ruling his life.  He couldn’t sleep.  He had trouble standing, walking and [...]