August 2023 Healthy News from Chiropractic Spine Sports And Rehabilitation Less Gabapentin Prescription and Pain with Chiropractic Care Back Pain & Hip Flexibility Link
Back pain is challenging. Its sufferers want relief. Wouldn’t it be terrific if a pill would deliver it?! Many back pain sufferers enter 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 acknowledge that we need to be well-trained in identifying patients who may have a substance use issue and understand how to help if the use is an issue. (1)) Recent research notes that the first-choice healthcare provider is an influential factor 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 chose chiropractic first. The highest health care utilization was seen for those who visited the emergency room as their first step into healthcare for back pain relief. (2) Another study shared that for patients under age 50 who are living with 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 underwent usual medical care. (3) Your chiropractor appreciates the value of interdisciplinary care and works with healthcare colleagues for the benefit of our back pain patients whenever possible and the value of provider choice in terms of relief and care. Your Tonawanda chiropractor at Chiropractic Spine Sports And Rehabilitation is confident to help our Tonawanda 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 variety of 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 modified. Remember: Everything is linked! Researchers who compared hip rotation range of motion in participants who experienced back pain and those who did not found that those with low back pain had remarkably 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 one new study. (5) Another study touted the benefit of core stability exercise and hip muscle stretching as effective at enhancing physical function and activity in non-specific low back pain patients. (6) We can check your hip flexibility out at your next Tonawanda chiropractic appointment and plan a way to maximize it!
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