Primary Spine Care Doctor
Between 1999 and 2008 the mean inflationary adjusted costs for ambulatory neck and/or back pain in the United States increased by a factor of 95%.1 According to the study by Davis et al the largest proportion of increased costs are associated with specialty visits rather than primary consultations, clearly indicating that spine care places a tremendous burden upon the health care system. In addition primary care physicians are overburdened with managing the needs of diabetic and high blood pressure patients. This has caused a gap in the healthcare system for those patient with back and neck pain disorders.
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Around October 2012, after a series of three falls, I was desperate for relief from the resulting constant pain. I had been suffering for several weeks with severe pain shooting down my left leg and sharp pain in my back and neck. I could not straighten my left leg, movement was difficult.
The Academy of Chiropractic is proud to announce that Dr. Donald Capoferri has been the first chiropractor nationally to have completed a Mini-Fellowship in Neuroradiology, focusing on MRI spine interpretation. Dr. Capoferri, a 1981 Pennsylvania College of Chiropractic graduate, did so by completing a 40 hour program requiring a minimum pre-requisite 25 hours of MRI study.