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July 2022 Healthy News from Wilson Family Chiropractic

The Millville 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 when it comes to options for managing back pain, a choice not all back pain patients know about but may want to be. In an analysis of 83,025 insurance back pain claims, 28% of the claimants underwent treatment with SMT. Of them, 24% received SMT initially, 4% delayed using SMT, and 72% did not undergo SMT at all. Treating initial episodes of back pain with spinal manipulation decreased the risk of imaging studies, injection procedures, and/or back surgery by close to 30% compared with no spinal manipulation treatment. Delayed spinal manipulation treatment also resulted in higher risk for these procedures. (1) A review of older Medicare chronic low back pain sufferers who underwent long-term care with SMT revealed that they described having 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 reported a higher rate of adverse drug events than the patients who chose SMT care. (3) Spinal manipulation is our “thing”! 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 details the most recent spine research about the optimal way to treat spine, back, and neck pain with the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management mixed with a presentation of the past influences on the present delivery and path for the future direction of research and delivery of SMT.

Wilson Family 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 prevalent skeletal diseases. An analysis of two studies of older men and women with osteoporosis counted their falls. Overall, falls within 4 months were found to be indicators of higher risk for non-spine and hip fracture in the next year. For women, a recent fall indicated an 8.1% absolute risk of non-spine fracture in 12 months, a 2.5 times greater risk than women who had not had falls, a 2.5% absolute risk of hip fracture, and a 3.1 times higher fall risk. (4) Falls aren’t good. Wilson Family Chiropractic is ready to help you avert falls and osteoporosis-related fractures. We can discuss addressing options like nutrition (calcium and vitamin D supplementation, etc.), gut microbiota balance, and exercise within the Millville chiropractic treatment plan for osteoporosis management. (5,6) Researchers noted 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 daily life. (6) Is that you? Wilson Family Chiropractic is here to help! Let’s talk about osteoporosis and fall risk at your next visit!

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