How much does chiropractic care cost?
It depends on you. The cost of care follows from your condition and how severe it is — there is no flat price that would be honest to quote before an examination.
After your consultation and exam you will receive a custom treatment plan with full, transparent pricing, so you know what you are committing to before you commit to it. The best next step is to book a consultation so your condition can be assessed properly.
Does my health insurance cover chiropractic care?
Many plans do; some do not. Dr. Moseley accepts Aetna, CareFirst, Blue Cross and Anthem.
If you are not sure whether your plan covers chiropractic, contact the office before your appointment and we will help you check rather than leaving you to guess.
What are the benefits of seeing a chiropractor?
Your spine does more than hold you up — it houses and protects the spinal cord, and the nerves branching from it communicate with the rest of your body.
Where joints are restricted or moving poorly, the effects are rarely limited to the spot that hurts. The goal of care is to find what is actually driving your pain, restore healthier movement, and help you get back to living without working around it. Read more on what chiropractic is and the conditions treated here.
How often do I have to come in?
That depends where you are in your condition and what you want from care. Some patients come several times a week during an acute phase; others come once a month to maintain what they have gained.
Being out of pain today does not always mean the underlying problem is resolved. Dr. Moseley re-examines patients over the course of care and adjusts the plan as things change — and if your goals are different from the recommendation, say so and the plan will be built around them.
Is chiropractic care safe?
Yes. Chiropractic is a natural, non-invasive approach that avoids both surgery and dependence on pain medication.
It is used safely across the whole span of life, from infancy through late adulthood, with technique adapted to the patient in front of you. Every plan begins with an examination, and where a condition needs another provider, Dr. Moseley will tell you and refer you.
More Questions
Longer answers to questions patients have asked over the years.
Why do I have to go so frequently for treatment? Is it really necessary?
The best way to answer this is with an analogy. If you had an infection and your physician prescribed an antibiotic twice a day for fourteen days, you would have taken twenty-eight doses — but it would not feel like twenty-eight treatments, because it was one visit and a bottle.
In chiropractic the treatment is given in the office rather than out of a bottle. A course of three visits a week for nine weeks sounds like a great deal of treatment, but it is actually one fewer than that prescription.
It seems like once you start going to a chiropractor you have to go forever.
Many patients do choose to continue, because they can feel the difference in how they move and how they live. That is a choice, not a requirement.
Some patients with significant structural problems do need long-term support, in the same way that some conditions need ongoing management. That is not the everyday case. The recommendation will always be what your condition requires.
Why do I have to keep coming when the pain is gone?
Pain has a threshold. Treatment often brings you below it well before the underlying condition has resolved — so the pain goes quiet while the problem is still there.
If care stops at that point, normal daily stresses tend to bring the pain back. Re-examination during care is how we tell the difference between "feeling better" and "being better."
I stopped care months ago and the pain has returned. Do I have to start over?
Usually not. If it has been six months to a year, a brief examination will establish whether the condition is the same or has changed, and in many cases considerably less treatment is needed than the first time.
Be clear about your goals and care will be tailored to them. Dr. Moseley will always recommend what your condition needs — then it is your decision what you want to do with that.
Are chiropractors "real" doctors?
Doctors of Chiropractic complete doctoral-level education, typically seven to eight years of higher education and professional training, and must pass national and state licensing examinations.
Chiropractors are not medical doctors and do not claim to be. It is a distinct field, focused on the spine, extremities and the structural causes of pain and dysfunction. Dr. Moseley refers to other types of doctor whenever a condition calls for it.
My doctor doesn't want me to use chiropractic.
This happens less than it used to, but it still happens — usually from unfamiliarity with what chiropractic treatment actually involves.
If it comes up, Dr. Moseley is happy to call your physician directly and discuss it. In some cases that conversation changes her own approach, because a patient's wider health history is relevant to how they should be treated.