May 2019 Healthy News: McHenry Chiropractic Benefits Chronic Pain (Without Opioids) & Athletes

Instead of opioids, McHenry chiropractic is beneficial for chronic pain management and relief.

Chronic Pain: Opioids? Use Chiropractic Instead.

McHenry chronic pain is extensive. McHenry opioid use is widespread. What’s a solution? Chiropractic with OrthoIllinois Chiropractic. Why? Opioids were acclaimed as a pill answer for chronic pain…costs soared, risks increased. Options and co-treatment approaches are demanded. In a research analysis of 62,000 patients in six studies of chiropractic use and opioid prescribing, use of chiropractic care ranged from 11.3% to 51.3%. Patients who saw a chiropractor for their musculoskeletal pain problem were 49% less likely to get a prescription for an opioid than those who went to different healthcare providers. (1) Patients using routine chiropractic care to manage their chronic low-back and neck pain expressed to researchers that their pain would be greater without such chiropractic care. Further, they are willing to pay for care to keep their mild pain levels. The “willingness to pay” cost ranges from $37.32 to $45.98. (2) McHenry chiropractic patients at OrthoIllinois Chiropractic value their chiropractic care! McHenry chiropractic services benefit chronic pain along with or without opioids.

Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Vincent Pankonin on The Back Doctor’s Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson about how chronic back pain treatment without opioids utilizing the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management permitted a patient to “forget” to visit him for a year as his pain was absent!

OrthoIllinois Chiropractic offers spinal manipulation to athletes of all types – recreational and professional – to enhance their efforts.

McHenry CHIROPRACTIC TIP OF THE MONTH: Spinal Manipulation Before Sports

McHenry athletes – recreational and professional – desire that edge when they do their activity. Spinal manipulation might be that edge! Elite Taekwondo athletes felt increased muscle strength and corticospinal excitability to ankle plantar flexor muscles after just one spinal manipulation. The added force of the maximum voluntary contraction of the plantar flexors continued for 30 minutes and the corticospinal excitability increase continued for not less than 60 minutes. (3) Virginia Tech football players – offensive and defensive - felt better performances in 2 football seasons during which they had pre-game spinal manipulation treatments. (4) A recent report said that a single pre-exercise SMT brought about a heightened shift toward parasympathetic (the part of the autonomic nervous system in charge of controlling the body's unconscious actions) dominance and slightly lessened performance in recreational healthy athletes. (5) Time to try spinal manipulation for yourself! See if it enhances your edge. Let’s chat at your next McHenry chiropractic appointment.

CONTACT OrthoIllinois Chiropractic

Make your McHenry chiropractic appointment. OrthoIllinois Chiropractic is here to help you control your chronic pain without opioids and help you not to be a part of today’s opioid epidemic and help McHenry athletes improve their edge! Thank you for trusting your spine’s health to OrthoIllinois Chiropractic!