July 2022 Healthy News from Dr. Le's Chiropractic & Wellness, L.L.C.
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 claimants underwent treatment with SMT. Of them, 24% received SMT initially, 4% delayed using SMT, and 72% didn’t undergo SMT at all. Treating initial back pain episodes with spinal manipulation reduced the risk of imaging studies, injection procedures, and/or back surgery by nearly 30% compared with no spinal manipulation treatment. Delayed SMT also raised the risk for these procedures. (1) A study of older Medicare chronic low back pain sufferers who underwent long-term care with SMT revealed that they described having 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 reported a higher rate of adverse drug events than the patients who chose SMT care. (3) Spinal manipulation is our “thing”! Delivering gentle, research-documented spinal manipulation in the form of gentle, well-investigated Cox® Technic is our choice. Come experience it!
Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. James Cox on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he describes 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 discussion of the past influences on the present delivery and path for the future direction of research and delivery of SMT.
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MANAGE OSTEOPOROSIS: Risk, Falls, Care
Osteoporosis-related falls are so common as osteoporosis is one of the most common skeletal diseases. A review of two studies of older men and women with osteoporosis counted their falls. Overall, falls within 4 months were documented to be signs of higher risk for non-spine and hip fracture in the next 12 months. In women, a recent fall denoted an 8.1% absolute risk of non-spine fracture in a year, a 2.5 times higher risk than women who hadn’t fallen, a 2.5% absolute risk of hip fracture, and a 3.1 times higher fall risk. (4) Falls aren’t good. Dr. Le's Chiropractic & Wellness, L.L.C. is ready to help you avert 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 Auburn chiropractic treatment plan for managing osteoporosis. (5,6) Researchers remarked that patients understood the benefit of non-pharmacological management of osteoporosis including exercise, nutrition, and fall prevention but admitted that they had a hard time incorporating these approaches into everyday life. (6) Is that you? Dr. Le's Chiropractic & Wellness, L.L.C. is here to help! Let’s discuss osteoporosis and fall risk at your next appointment!
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