Spinal Manipulation and Dry Needling For Lumbar Spinal Stenosis May Help

If you have lumbar spinal stenosis, you may want to consider the addition of spinal manipulation and electrical dry needling to your longer-term treatments. ~ Dr. Broussard Spine J. 2023 Dec 14:S1529-9430(23)03563-5. doi: 10.1016/j.spinee.2023.12.002. Online ahead of print. Spinal manipulation and electrical dry needling as an adjunct to conventional physical therapy in patients with lumbar…

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Spinal Manipulation Compared to Usual Medical Care for Back Pain

In the journal SPINE, the authors of a study compared manual spinal manipulation to usual medical care, and found that manual-thrust manipulation provides greater short-term reductions in self-reported disability and pain scores compared with usual medical care and mechanical-assisted manipulations. ~ Dr. Broussard Comparison of spinal manipulation methods and usual medical care for acute and…

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Vibration Therapy May Help CHRONIC Low Back Pain

Preliminary evidence shows that vibration therapy may help improve CHRONIC low back pain. Chronic means that a person has to have had back pain for 3 months or more. However, the authors of a study state that we still need to carefully interpret the results of this study, as the certainty of evidence was low,…

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Office Employees Should Shift Their Posture Often For Relief

Office employees who sit in an office all day are advised to shift their posture in order to buffer the effects on perceived discomfort at the neck, shoulder, upper back and lower back. ~ Dr. Broussard Effects of Postural Shifting Frequency on Perceived Musculoskeletal Discomfort During 1-Hour Sitting in Office Workers Journal of Manipulative &…

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Non-Opioid Management of New Onset Back Pain

In an article published in the Journal of Orthopedic Research, the authors found that muscle relaxants and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) were effective in reducing new onset back pain and disability.  The combination of NSAIDs and Tylenol was better than NSIADs alone, and Tylenol by itself wasn’t much help. ~ Dr. Broussard Nonopioid pharmacological management…

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Chiropractic Technique May Improve Disc Related Low Back Pain

In an article published in SN Comprehensive Clinical Medicine, an author from Logan University, a chiropractic college, found that by using MRI spectroscopy, they could quantify both structural and biochemical improvements in patients with disc related back pain using the Cox Technique of chiropractic treatments.. ~ Dr. Broussard Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy Displays the Structural and…

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We’re Treating Low Back Pain All Wrong

— Let’s reexamine the current approach to treatment by Christine Goertz, DC, PhD April 14, 2023 In December 2019, I attended a National Academies of Sciences workshop on the role of non-pharmacological approaches to pain management. At the end of the meeting, as expected, panelists concluded that more research was needed. However, to my surprise, several scientists…

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Teens Using Smartphones for More Than 3 Hours a Day Have More Back Pain

Published April 7, 2023 | Originally published on MedicalXpress Breaking News-and-Events Thanks to the popularization of smartphones and tablets, and the multiplication of video channels, computer games and educational apps, children and adolescents are spending more and more time looking at screens, usually with bad posture, which can cause back pain, among other problems. A…

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Chiropractic Treatment Included in Evidence-Based Guidelines To The World Health Organization

Chiropractic treatment that includes spinal manipulation, is included in the evidence-based recommendations from high-quality clinical practice guidelines to inform the World Health Organization Package of Interventions for Rehabilitation for people with lower back pain with and without radiculopathy (sciatica). ~ Dr. Broussard A Systematic Review of Clinical Practice Guidelines for Persons With Non-specific Low Back…

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Back Braces: Elastic vs Inelastic

This paper published in the journal SPINE, compared elastic vs inelastic back supports in 300 nurses aged 20-25 years old.  These nurses wore the supports for 6 months, and the follow up was an additional 6 months.  In the end, the authors concluded that there was no difference in preventing back pain or did the…

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