Dear Professionally Integrated, Here is a great video and paper that I break down for you to make it easy to put in your notes and educate patients and your community. This paper describes the difference between chronic pain patients from a car crash, compared to patients with pain not from a car crash. The authors found a significant difference… Read More
Dear professionally integrated, Many times an insurance adjuster, or someone else may say, “your patient should be better by now”. Depending on the diagnosis you gave, this may or may not be true. If you gave an appropriate diagnosis, and that diagnosis matches your documentation, and you can validate with research, you can use the letter below explaining why that… Read More
Hello Professionally Integrated, Here is a FREE video and PAPER where the authors did a survey on MVC patients. This survey showed that 50% of MVC patients suffer with chronic pain. This does NOT agree with what many insurance companies and the “doctors” they hire say. Many of the insurance reports mention the patient “should be better in 6-8 weeks.”… Read More
Hello Professionally Integrated, The Croft guidelines. And Dr. Croft himself are amazing. However, I like to really focus on each specific diagnosis and what those injuries mean that allowed you to grade a person a Croft grade 2, or 3, etc.. Be sure to sign up for research to help educate ourselves and patients on specific injuries and how YOUR… Read More
Hello Professionally integrated, If you have not joined professionally integrated yet, what are you waiting for? This service is a concierge service to help you improve your practice as well as your knowledge. As a member you gain full access to call me personally, as well as research to help validate your care, and to further educate patients so they understand… Read More
This is the actual “expert narrative” that the treating chiropractor wrote on his patient. I was asked by the patients attorney to review it as they were close to trial. Unfortunately, after review, the patient could not have her own treating chiropractor testify for her as both her attorney and myself believe that this chiropractor would not be of much… Read More
This is a report that a patient was treated by some insurance docs for about 2 years and they just said he had “migraines and sprain/strain”. No full evaluation was done and one of the docs happened to be a IME doctor who would usually “cut off patients for too much care and no real injuries”. Now, here he is… Read More
If you are asked, and you should be asked by an attorney to write a rebuttal to what a insurance doctor writes on your patient, you should. This will take time as you need to read the full report and make notes on where the IME doctor is wrong and explain your position on your patient in detail. In this… Read More
Do not expect an attorney to know the science and treatment as well as you in regards to your diagnosis and treatment plan of your patient. While you are on the stand in court, you can only discuss what is asked of you. That means, if you are not asked, you can not explain what the jury may need to… Read More
Dear professionally integrated, Many times an insurance adjuster, or someone else may say, “your patient should be better by now”. Depending on the diagnosis you gave, this may or may not be true. If you gave an appropriate diagnosis, and that diagnosis matches your documentation, and you can validate with research, you can use the letter below explaining why that… Read More
If you are asked, and you should be asked by an attorney to write a rebuttal to what a insurance doctor writes on your patient, you should. This will take time as you need to read the full report and make notes on where the IME doctor is wrong and explain your position on your patient in detail. In this… Read More
Do not expect an attorney to know the science and treatment as well as you in regards to your diagnosis and treatment plan of your patient. While you are on the stand in court, you can only discuss what is asked of you. That means, if you are not asked, you can not explain what the jury may need to… Read More
Hello Professionally Integrated, Here is a FREE video and PAPER where the authors did a survey on MVC patients. This survey showed that 50% of MVC patients suffer with chronic pain. This does NOT agree with what many insurance companies and the “doctors” they hire say. Many of the insurance reports mention the patient “should be better in 6-8 weeks.”… Read More
Hello Professionally Integrated, The Croft guidelines. And Dr. Croft himself are amazing. However, I like to really focus on each specific diagnosis and what those injuries mean that allowed you to grade a person a Croft grade 2, or 3, etc.. Be sure to sign up for research to help educate ourselves and patients on specific injuries and how YOUR… Read More
Hello Professionally integrated, If you have not joined professionally integrated yet, what are you waiting for? This service is a concierge service to help you improve your practice as well as your knowledge. As a member you gain full access to call me personally, as well as research to help validate your care, and to further educate patients so they understand… Read More
This is the actual “expert narrative” that the treating chiropractor wrote on his patient. I was asked by the patients attorney to review it as they were close to trial. Unfortunately, after review, the patient could not have her own treating chiropractor testify for her as both her attorney and myself believe that this chiropractor would not be of much… Read More