August 2023 Healthy News from Chiropractic Solutions Less Gabapentin Prescription and Pain with Chiropractic Care Back Pain & Hip Flexibility Link
Back pain is challenging. Its sufferers want relief. Would it not be wonderful if a pill would deliver it?! Many back pain sufferers step into the back pain relief medical system and are given prescriptions for meds first. They take them with hope for relief of pain. (Because this is so customary, we chiropractors recognize that we need to be well-trained to identify patients who may have a substance use issue and understand how to help if the use is a problem. (1)) Recent research states that the first-choice healthcare provider makes a difference in patients’ utilization of healthcare services. A review of 29,806 patient cases that analyzed utilization of healthcare for the year following the first visit and found that use was less for those who made the choice to see a chiropractor first. The greatest health care utilization was seen for those who visited the emergency room as their first healthcare visit for back pain relief. (2) Another study noted that for patients under age 50 who are experiencing low back pain, two usual options of care and of care providers are spinal manipulation from a chiropractor and pharmacological prescription of gabapentin from a medical provider. Prescriptions for gabapentin were significantly lower for those who underwent chiropractic spinal manipulative care than those who used usual medical care. (3) Your chiropractor appreciates the value of interdisciplinary care and communicates with healthcare colleagues for the benefit of our back pain patients whenever possible and the value of provider choice with regards to relief and care. Your San Jose chiropractor at Chiropractic Solutions is confident to help our San Jose back pain patients with our effective chiropractic services!
Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Kurt Olding on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson about the many choices back pain patients in “The Spine Care ‘Supermarket’” and how choosing The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management helps manage the pain.
When the hips are tight, the back gets stressed, and movement is altered. Remember: Everything is connected! Researchers who compared hip rotation range of motion in participants who reported back pain and those who didn’t found that those with low back pain had extraordinarily restricted hip lateral rotation range of motion. (4) Luckily, there are ways to improve hip flexibility. One new way is auricular acupressure. What is that? Ask at your next appointment, but it improved hip flexibility (and back pain!) in a new study. (5) Another study hyped the benefit of core stability exercise and hip muscle stretching as effective at improving physical function and activity in non-specific low back pain patients. (6) Let’s check your hip flexibility out at your next San Jose chiropractic appointment and plan a way to maximize it!
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