Another Pain-free Patient! Happy not to have Surgery!

Greg is twenty-nine years old and a hard working guy.  When he came to Busch Chiropractic Pain Center he was suffering from low back pain that he rated an 8/10.  He had been in pain from spinal stenosis and bulging discs for approximately a year.  This pain began affecting his daily life, work and overall [...]

Talented Whitney is a part of terrible stats!

Prescription drugs according a former drug czar is the biggest and fastest-growing part of America’s drug problem. According to the CDC the misuse of prescription medication causing fatal overdoses has shown a drastic increase.  It is a good thing gone awry and now is an unrecognized epidemic.  And is the 10th leading cause of death [...]

American’s can’t say no to Medicare

Senior citizens who receive their Social Security must take Medicare for insurance.  The federal appeals court made that ruling on Tuesday.  There is no way to opt out of Medicare and continue to keep your Social Security benefits.  It is unusual that Americans don’t want the Medicare coverage, but Dick Armey, former House Majority Leader, [...]

People’s actions change when they are being watched and praised.

People’s action change when they are being watched.  According to a report in the New York Times, a New York area hospital installed cameras to record hand-washing in the intensive care unit.  The workers were monitored as they went in and out of patients’ rooms.  The hospital thought this would be a good way to get [...]

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 [...]