July 2022 Healthy News from Connected Chiropractic
Spinal manipulation therapy (SMT) is a choice for treatment of back pain, a choice not all back pain patients are aware of but may want to be. In an analysis of 83,025 insurance back pain claims, 28% of the patients underwent treatment with SMT. Of them, 24% received SMT initially, 4% delayed using SMT, and 72% didn’t received SMT at all. Caring for initial episodes of back pain with spinal manipulation decreased the risk of imaging studies, injection procedures, and/or back surgery by close to 30% compared with not receiving SMT. Delayed spinal manipulation treatment also resulted in higher risk for these procedures. (1) A review of older Medicare chronic low back pain sufferers who received long-term care with SMT revealed that they reported higher health-related quality of life and satisfaction with care than those who experienced long-term care with prescription drug therapy. (2) Older Medicare chronic low back pain patients who initially chose opioid analgesic therapy reported a higher rate of adverse drug events than the patients who chose SMT care. (3) Spinal manipulation is our forte! Delivering gentle, research-documented spinal manipulation in the form of gentle, well-researched Cox® Technic is our choice. Come feel it!
Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. James Cox on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he details the most recent spine research about the optimal method to treat spine, back, and neck pain with the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management mixed with a presentation of the past influences on the present delivery and plan for the future direction of research and delivery of SMT.
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MANAGE OSTEOPOROSIS: Risk, Falls, Care
Osteoporosis-related falls are widespread as osteoporosis is one of the most common skeletal diseases. An analysis of two studies of older men and women with osteoporosis tracked their falls. Overall, falls within 4 months were documented to be indicators of higher risk for non-spine and hip fracture in the next year. For women, a recent fall signaled an 8.1% absolute risk of non-spine fracture in 12 months, a 2.5 times higher risk than women who had not had falls, a 2.5% absolute risk of hip fracture, and a 3.1 times higher fall risk. (4) Falls are bad. Connected Chiropractic is ready to help you avoid falls and osteoporosis-related fractures. We can talk about addressing options like nutrition (calcium and vitamin D supplementation, etc.), gut microbiota balance, and exercise within the Elgin chiropractic treatment plan for osteoporosis management. (5,6) Researchers noted that patients understood the benefit of non-pharmacological management of osteoporosis including exercise, nutrition, and fall prevention but confessed that they found it difficult integrating these approaches into daily life. (6) Is that you? We’re here to help! Let’s talk about osteoporosis and fall risk at your next visit!
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