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Healthy News October 2022 National Chiropractic Health Month!

McHenry chiropractic care is being celebrated in this National Chiropractic Health Month. OrthoIllinois Chiropractic describes how its non-drug approach benefits spine pain, back pain, neck pain, and related pain management and even decreases use/need for opioids.  

National Chiropractic Care Month: Chiropractic Care Reduces Need for/Use of Opioids for Pain

At OrthoIllinois Chiropractic, October celebrates National Chiropractic Care Month. One positive chiropractic benefit is the impact it has on non-drug pain relief and management. Researchers wrote that using opioids for acute pain management is quite common, but come patients experience a tolerance to or dependence on opioids and do not prefer an opioid prescription. For these patients, non-pharmacological pain interventions involved chiropractic care, manual therapy, electrical nerve stimulation, yoga, exercise, physical therapy, bracing, hot/cold, massage, etc., as well as behavioral and psychological therapies like hypnosis, meditation, mindfulness, breathing, etc. Multimodal approaches like this may help. (1) Chiropractic delivers non-drug pain management. Chiropractic neck pain or back pain patients compared to non-chiropractic care patients had almost half the risk of obtaining a prescription for an opioid. (2) A study of the 9356 US chiropractic patients of a total of 55,949 Medicare spine pain patients revealed a 56% lower risk of filling an opioid prescription within a year of the initial visit. Chiropractic care was associated with a significantly decreased risk of filling an opioid prescription. (3) A Canadian study of noncancer spine patients found that 24% of them received an opioid prescription. The risk of starting the opioids at one year was 52% less for chiropractic care patients and 71% less in chiropractic patients who initiated chiropractic care within the first month of pain. (4) In this National Chiropractic Health Month, your McHenry chiropractor at OrthoIllinois Chiropractic welcomes all who are seeking a non-drug, more natural path to health and pain relief!

Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. James Cox on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he relates the non-drug pain-relieving effects of The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.

OrthoIllinois Chiropractic encourages our chiropractic patients to get out in nature! Interacting with nature is good for young and old alike, inspires independence, pleasure, and for dementia sufferers quite possibly even memory-triggering. 

McHenry CHIROPRACTIC TIP OF THE MONTH: Enjoy Nature!

Young and old equally gain from interacting with nature. Too many McHenry folks stay inside or interact too much with our tech to get out in nature. The benefits of nature interaction are growing especially for those who are getting older and/or coping with dementia. New studies reported on the connection with the natural world was significant for people coping with dementia, bringing on a sense of comfort, pleasure, stimulation, meaning, and freedom which precede a higher quality of life, well-being, independence, identity, and social interaction. Nature provided a sense of connection to self, place, and others. (5) Another study hopefully proposed that such engagement with nature might generate memories of past such interactions, people, and places to sustain a sense of self, too. (6) As one paper speculated in its title “connecting with the natural world – more than a breath of fresh air?” We’d say ‘yes’! Let’s get out and enjoy nature (and a little exercise)! OrthoIllinois Chiropractic is ready! Are you?

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In this National Chiropractic Care Month, we are even more grateful for you, our chiropractic patient family! Set your next McHenry chiropractic visit with OrthoIllinois Chiropractic now!

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