July 2022 Healthy News from OrthoIllinois Chiropractic

The McHenry 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 a review of 83,025 insurance back pain claims, 28% of the patients underwent treatment 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 SMT. 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 found that they had 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-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 describes the most recent spine research about the most advantageous method 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.

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

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MANAGE OSTEOPOROSIS: Risk, Falls, Care

Osteoporosis-related falls are widespread as osteoporosis is one of the most common skeletal diseases. A review of two studies of older men and women with osteoporosis counted their falls. Overall, falls within 4 months were documented to be signs of higher risk for non-spine and hip fracture in the next 12 months. In women, a recent fall signaled an 8.1% absolute risk of non-spine fracture in 12 months, a 2.5 times greater 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 aren’t good. OrthoIllinois Chiropractic 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 McHenry 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 admitted that they found it hard incorporating these approaches into everyday life. (6) Is that you? We’re here to help! Let’s talk about osteoporosis and fall risk at your next appointment!

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