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 claimants underwent treatment with
SMT. Of them, 24% received SMT initially, 4% delayed using SMT,
and 72% didn’t undergo SMT at all. Managing 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 spinal manipulation treatment.
Delayed spinal manipulation treatment also raised the risk for these procedures. (1) A review 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
underwent 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-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 most recent spine research regarding the most
advantageous way 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 prevalent
as osteoporosis is one of the most prevalent skeletal diseases. An
analysis of two studies of older men and women with osteoporosis counted
their falls. Overall, falls within 4 months were found to be indicators
of higher risk for non-spine and hip fracture in the next 12 months.
For women, a recent fall indicated 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 higher fall risk.
(4) Falls aren’t good. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC is here to
help you prevent 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 La Grande
chiropractic treatment plan for managing osteoporosis.
(5,6) Researchers observed 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 discuss osteoporosis and fall
risk at your next appointment!
CONTACT Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC
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