July 2022 Healthy News from Apple Country Chiropractic

The Williamson chiropractic care provides spinal manipulation which research is describing as beneficial for pain relief, better quality of life, and decreased 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 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 were treated with SMT. Of them, 24% received SMT initially, 4% delayed using SMT, and 72% did not 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 almost 30% compared with no spinal manipulation treatment. Delayed SMT also raised the risk for these procedures. (1) A review of older Medicare chronic low back pain sufferers who received long-term care with SMT found 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 experienced 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-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 regarding 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.

Apple Country Chiropractic presents information on the benefit of managing osteoporosis to avoid falls and fractures as well tips on how to do that. 

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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. 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 had falls, a 2.5% absolute risk of hip fracture, and a 3.1 times increased fall risk. (4) Falls are bad. Apple Country Chiropractic is here 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 Williamson chiropractic treatment plan for osteoporosis management. (5,6) Researchers remarked 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? Apple Country Chiropractic is here to help! Let’s talk about osteoporosis and fall risk at your next appointment!

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