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July 2022 Healthy News from Spinal Care Clinic

The Burlington and Hamilton chiropractic care offers spinal manipulation which research is describing as beneficial for pain relief, improved quality of life, and reduced risk of prescription medication use and excess testing. 

SPINAL MANIPULATION: A Beneficial Choice for Relief of Back Pain, Better Quality of Life, Reduced Risk of Tests and Prescriptions

Spinal manipulation therapy (SMT) is a choice when it comes to options for managing back pain, a choice not all back pain sufferers know about but may want to be. In a review 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 undergo SMT at all. Caring for initial back pain episodes 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 study of older Medicare chronic low back pain sufferers who underwent long-term care with SMT found that they had higher health-related quality of life and satisfaction with care than those who had long-term care with prescription drug therapy. (2) Older Medicare chronic low back pain patients who initially chose opioid analgesic therapy experienced a higher rate of adverse drug events than the patients who chose SMT care. (3) Spinal manipulation is our forte! Delivering gentle, research-supported 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 latest 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 path for the future direction of research and delivery of SMT.

Spinal Care Clinic presents information on the benefit of managing osteoporosis to avoid falls and fractures as well tips on how to do that. 

Burlington and Hamilton CHIROPRACTIC TIP OF THE MONTH:

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 denoted an 8.1% absolute risk of non-spine fracture in a year, a 2.5 times greater risk than women who hadn’t fallen, a 2.5% absolute risk of hip fracture, and a 3.1 times increased fall risk. (4) Falls are bad. Spinal Care Clinic 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 Burlington and Hamilton 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 admitted that they found it difficult incorporating these approaches into everyday life. (6) Is that you? Spinal Care Clinic is here to help! Let’s talk about osteoporosis and fall risk at your next appointment!

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