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Some of your patients may benefit from conservative pain management strategies. Some need help reducing their disability from acute or chronic MSK conditions.

Collaboration helps to ensure that patients get the right care at the right time by the right provider. The most common type of collaboration between chiropractors and primary care providers occurs through referral and clinical reporting.

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As a referring physician, or other primary care provider, you can expect your patients to receive;

Appropriate assessment

Diagnosis-including clear active communication to the patient and back to you as the referring primary care provider

An evidence-informed plan of management utilizing patient-centred modules of care, including; education and advice, rehabilitative exercise, manual therapies, and tri age/referral (if necessary)

Collaborative Primary Care

For more information on collaborating with chiropractors in the healthcare system, read Ontario’s Chiropractors Partnering in Primary Health Care.

For a look at ‘the right care at the right time by the right provider’ model of care in action, read What to understand about chronic pain in the Globe and Mail.

In addition to practice-based care delivery in North York, Dr. Weisberg is one of the clinicians fulfilling the role of Advanced Practice Provider with the ISAEC program in both Etobicoke (Mississauga-Halton LHIN) and North York Central (Markham – Stoufville / Central LHIN). These Interprofessional Spine Assessment and Education Clinics are designed for patients, and reinforce their relationship with their Primary Care Provider. To better understand this proven, innovative, upstream inter-professional model of spine care, read the Toronto Star profile Renowned spine surgeon is transforming the way Ontario deals with back pain .

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