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July 2022 Healthy News from Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation

The Carrolltown chiropractic care provides spinal manipulation which research is describing as beneficial for pain relief, improved 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 when it comes to options for managing back pain, a choice not all back pain patients know about 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% 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 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 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 forte! 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 describes the most recent spine research about the optimal way 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.

Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation shares information on the benefit of managing osteoporosis to avoid falls and fractures as well tips on how to do that. 

Carrolltown CHIROPRACTIC TIP OF THE MONTH:

MANAGE OSTEOPOROSIS: Risk, Falls, Care

Osteoporosis-related falls are so common as osteoporosis is one of the most prevalent 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 12 months. In women, a recent fall indicated 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 higher fall risk. (4) Falls are bad. Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation 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 Carrolltown 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 had a hard time incorporating these approaches into everyday life. (6) Is that you? We’re here to help! Let’s discuss osteoporosis and fall risk at your next visit!

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