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July 2022 Healthy News from Chiropractic Solutions

The San Jose 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 for treatment of back pain, a choice not all back pain sufferers know about 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. Treating initial back pain episodes with spinal manipulation reduced the risk of imaging studies, injection procedures, and/or back surgery by close to 30% compared with not receiving spinal manipulation treatment. Delayed spinal manipulation treatment 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 described having higher health-related quality of life and satisfaction with care than those who had 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-documented spinal manipulation in the form of gentle, well-researched Cox® Technic is our choice. Come experience it!

Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. James Cox on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he describes the latest 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 discussion of the past influences on the present delivery and path for the future direction of research and delivery of SMT.

Chiropractic Solutions 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 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 found to be signs 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 12 months, 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 higher fall risk. (4) Falls are bad. Chiropractic Solutions 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 San Jose chiropractic treatment plan for osteoporosis management. (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 integrating 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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