07/07/2026
➡️The data has spoken.
➡️Patients experience's have spoken.
➡️Doctors experience's have spoken.
And yet, we still have naysayers.
Maintenance care is defined as care that has completed a care plan, functional goals have been reached, functional limitations have been reversed or improved.
So, why do so many patients stop care after they feel great?
Why do they stop when life is easier when they MOVE better?
Why do they stop when they have experienced more mind-body connection and fear of pain or reinjury is gone?
Most of the time, it's because "their insurance stopped paying."
"They are back to normal now, so they don't need the expense."
"They will come back when they hurt again."
Let's break this down to reality:
1. Does anyone's insurance rock and pay 100% all of the time? Nope.
2. Their care plan due to injury and time out of work, PTO wasted, vacations altered costs them more to get back to life than regularly scheduled care!
3. Continuously staying on the mindset cycle of "when I'm injured again," is a 🌟NEUROPLASTIC🌟 way of ensuring you'll be injured again. Now, that's expensive.
In 2018, a RCT (random controlled trial) measured 328 humans and categorized them into symptom based care and maintenance care (regularly scheduled visits).
Wanna know what they found?
➡️ The maintenance care group had 🔥30 days LESS OF LOW BACK PAIN🔥!!!
What would you do with one month less of low back pain in a year?!
➡️ The maintenance group had 1.7 more visits than the symptom based group.
Approximately 2 visits more!!
When we think we are saving money by cutting costs on our health, we aren't! w
We are cutting time out of our lives by decreasing productivity, joy, and presence with our loved ones.
You're worth it. ❤️ Take care of you. ❤️