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September 2021 Healthy News from Connected Chiropractic

Access to and research behind Elgin chiropractic’s delivery of spinal manipulation is important for back and neck pain patients’ pain relief and expenses.

 
CHIROPRACTIC RESEARCH AND ACCESS ARE IMPORTANT FOR SPINE PATIENT CARE

The “knowers” will control spinal manipulation once said Scott Haldeman DC MD. Quite true! And patients should expect their spinal manipulation therapy (SMT) providers to be such “knowers”! 90% of spinal manipulation is delivered by chiropractors. (1) Chiropractors know SMT. Your Elgin chiropractor at Connected Chiropractic knows spinal manipulation.  An analysis of chiropractors’ application of SMT according to the RAND/UCLA Appropriateness Method reported that they appropriately delivered SMT in treating 84% of their chronic low back pain and 86% of their chronic neck pain patients. (2) According to an analysis of published research, research support for chiropractic SMT was cited more than average in a large number of research areas from medicine, veterinary, neurosciences, biochemistry, genetics and molecular biology, to social sciences. (3) Chiropractors know they can offer relieving SMT, cost effectively too, when patients have access to them. A new study of older adult spine pain patients’ diminished access to chiropractic resulted in an increase the number of visits to primary care physicians for spine pain, rate of spinal surgery, and cost of care (an additional cost of $114,967 per 1000 beneficiaries on medical services). (4) Luckily in our area, your chiropractor is available to you, knows the proper tests to evaluate your condition to establish a treatment plan to handle your spine pain. Many tests like manual palpation are available to back pain specialists like your Elgin chiropractor to evaluate low back pain in Elgin adults. For example, the gluteal muscle palpation test for tenderness is quite reliable in its validity in differentiating low back pain patients with and without radiculopathy. (5) Chiropractors like yours at Connected Chiropractic truly are “knowers” who understand the examination, diagnosis, and proper treatment of Elgin back pain and neck pain!

Connected Chiropractic shares how important slow deep breathing is in pain relief. 

Elgin CHIROPRACTIC TIP OF THE MONTH: Just Breathe

Just breathe. How often do you really think to breathe? Not many people do, but researchers are scrutinizing breathing more in its different modes and for its pain-relieving abilities. Compared to uncontrolled breathing patterns, slow deep breathing decreased visceral pain intensity. (6) It was found to more effectively reduce pain when it was done slowly with an extended expiration than inspiration. (7) One study proposed pursed-lips breathing and found that it was more calming, pleasant, and sense-of-control delivering, especially good for handling emotional responses. (8) Interesting! Your chiropractor most valued the report about breathing’s effect on chronic neck pain patients’ muscle activity which triggered researchers to recommend breathing as a part of neck pain treatment plans. (9) So breathe. You have to anyway, so you might want to pay a little more attention to HOW you breathe to reduce your pain.

Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Lee Hazen and Cheri Hazen on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as they present research on the incorporation of basic breathing instruction along with spinal manipulation in their use of the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.

CONTACT Connected Chiropractic

Set up your next Elgin chiropractic appointment with Connected Chiropractic. You have access to spinal manipulation with us. Bonus: we’ll chat about pain relieving breathing options for you! See you soon!