Welcome to Strive Integrative Health. My name is Dr. Jonathan Stevenson. We specialize in helping people who suffer with low back pain, disc issues, sciatica, neck pain, headaches, and a variety of other musculoskeletal conditions.
We help them get better naturally, non-invasively, and non-surgically—and avoid things like pain pills, surgeries, injections, or worse, just doing nothing and letting the symptoms get worse.
Before Your Appointment
When you sign up for an appointment here in our office, we always send you the paperwork prior to you coming into the office. This gives you a chance to fill out the new patient paperwork so you can really leave no stone left unturned. You can share with us whatever you’d like. That way, we can really find out, one, if you’re in the right place and if we can help you.
If we can help you, we’ll determine what helping you actually looks like: timeframe, treatments, cost, and all of the above. We go through all of that with you, but first, we need to find out if you’re in the right place.
Your Consultation
When you come into our office, you’ll be greeted by our amazing staff. If you didn’t fill out the paperwork beforehand, we just ask that you show up about five to ten minutes early. That way, it gives you time to fill out that paperwork.
Once you complete that paperwork, our front desk will bring you into one of our exam rooms, where one of our trained doctors will come in and go through a very thorough consultation with you. They’ll uncover why you’re here, your symptoms, conditions, and previous diagnoses.
If you have X-rays or MRIs from previous doctor’s visits, you’re more than welcome to bring those in. We always say, “The more information, the better.” That way, we can really get up to speed on your case, find out where you were, where you’re at, and, ultimately, where you’d like to go with your care.
We are very big on sitting knee to knee with our patients and finding out exactly what is wrong, what their goals are, and what they’d like to achieve coming into our office. Whether that’s less pain, more mobility, being able to walk the dog, hang out with the grandkids, be more mobile around the house, enjoy the golden years, go golfing, go hunting—whatever it is that you’d like to do, we want to help you achieve that.
Through the consultation, we go through all of that with you.
The Orthopedic Exam and Digital X-Rays
From there, we do a very thorough orthopedic exam so we can find out what joints are giving you trouble, which ones are moving, which ones aren’t moving, where it’s putting pressure on those nerves, and, really, the root cause of your problem.
We take it a step further. We like to take digital X-rays to find out exactly where the problem is. We always say, “To see is to know.” From the orthopedic exam, we can make a very good educated guess, but from the X-rays, we know exactly where that problem is coming from.
Your Trial Treatment
Based on what we see on the X-rays, we may deliver a trial treatment that day to get our patients feeling better as quickly as possible.
Some of our patients may have a more extensive history where we really need to sit down, look at all the information and past medical history, and even look at those X-rays in more detail to really make sure this is a case that we can help with.
Your Follow-Up and Care Plan
Either way, we have you come back in to go over that exam and those X-rays. We find out how you did after that first treatment, if we did deliver a treatment that first day, and then we go over a care plan to help you achieve the goals that you came in here for.
Everybody is different. There’s no cookie-cutter approach here that works for everybody, so we have a variety of different treatments that focus on not only the nerves, but also the muscles, tendons, ligaments, and the disc. Wherever that problem is coming from, we want to make sure that we’re addressing it at all angles.
We often say that it’s not just one treatment that fixes everything. A lot of times, it’s several treatments that bio-stack on top of each other that really drive the great results that we get here at Strive Integrative Health.
Insurance and Your Report of Findings
When we go over all of that with you, we even take your insurance and find out what they cover and what they don’t cover. Then we go over that in a full report of findings with you. That way, you know exactly what you need to do, where we need to go, and how we get you feeling better.
In our next videos, I’ll take you through our exam, and I’ll take you through where we go from here. I hope that helps.
