July 2022 Healthy News from Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation

The Carrolltown chiropractic care offers spinal manipulation which research is describing as beneficial for pain relief, better 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 an analysis of 83,025 insurance back pain claims, 28% of the claimants were treated with SMT. Of them, 24% underwent SMT initially, 4% delayed using SMT, and 72% did not received SMT at all. Caring for initial episodes of back pain with spinal manipulation reduced the risk of imaging studies, injection procedures, and/or back surgery by close to 30% compared with no 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 received long-term care with SMT revealed that they described having 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 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 plan for the future direction of research and delivery of SMT.

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

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MANAGE OSTEOPOROSIS: Risk, Falls, Care

Osteoporosis-related falls are prevalent 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 signaled 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 increased fall risk. (4) Falls aren’t good. Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation is ready to help you prevent falls and osteoporosis-related fractures. We can discuss 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 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 incorporating these approaches into everyday life. (6) Is that you? Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation is here to help! Let’s discuss osteoporosis and fall risk at your next visit!

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