Author: Andre Broussard, D.C.
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Study cites risk factors for conversion to TKA following knee arthroscopy
If you have any of these, you are at risk of going on to have a total knee replacement if you’ve already had your knee scoped. Obesity Older than 70 years old Have diabetes Depression Rheumatoid arthritis Boyd JA, et al. Orthopedics. 2016;doi:10.3928/01477447-20160719-01. March 7, 2017 Results from this study demonstrated women, patients 70 years and…
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Advice for Safe Fish Consumption
March 7, 2017 Rebecca Voelker, MSJ JAMA. 2017;317(9):900. doi:10.1001/jama.2017.1063 Along with the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the FDA has issued final advice on safe fish consumption geared toward pregnant or breastfeeding women and young children. Together, the agencies created a reference chart that sorts 62 types of fish into “best,” “good,” or “avoid” categories.…
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Association Between Dietary Factors and Death From Heart Disease, Stroke, and Type 2 Diabetes in the United States
Renata Micha, RD, PhD JAMA. 2017;317(9):912-924. doi:10.1001/jama.2017.0947 Key Points Question What is the estimated mortality due to heart disease, stroke, or type 2 diabetes (cardiometabolic deaths) associated with suboptimal intakes of 10 dietary factors in the United States? Findings In 2012, suboptimal intake of dietary factors was associated with an estimated 318 656 cardiometabolic deaths, representing 45.4% of…
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Spinal Manipulation for Back and Neck Pain: Does It Work?
Spinal Manipulation: A Valid Technique? In her office at McMaster University in Toronto, Anita Gross, MSc, has logged paper after paper showing that spinal manipulation can help control neck pain. “The evidence keeps growing and growing,” she says. Gross, a physiotherapist and associate professor of rehabilitation science, helped write a 2015 Cochrane review of the…
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Knee Pain Severity, Not Structural Damage, a Risk Factor for Incident Widespread Pain
MARCH 3, 2017 For people who have osteoarthritis (OA), knee pain severity may be a far more important predictor of long-term incident widespread pain than structural damage, according to results from Canada’s Multicenter Osteoarthritis Study (MOST). Indeed, researchers at the Université de Montréal concluded that consistent frequent knee pain, symptomatic knee OA and knee pain…
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Chiropractic Manipulation or Medication for Low Back Pain?
3/6/17 By Andrew Moeller Pain medication is a common and convenient treatment for lower back pain. But easier is not always better, as a recent study suggests that spinal manipulation may provide more relief than at least one popular pain medication. Published in the journal Spine, the recent study suggests that treating acute, non-specific lower…
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Lung cancer and shoulder pain: What’s the connection?
Tue 14 March 2017 By Zawn Villines Reviewed by Christina Chun, MPH Most people experience shoulder pain, usually due to inflammation or muscle injuries. Much less frequently, shoulder pain can be a sign of lung cancer. Although shoulder pain is not a hallmark of lung cancer, any persistent unexplained pain warrants a visit to a…
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Does Acupuncture Help Peripheral Neuropathy?
This article says that the majority off studies showed benefit for acupuncture over control in the treatment of diabetic neuropathy, Bell’s palsy, and carpal tunnel syndrome. Acupuncture is probably effective in the treatment of HIV-related neuropathy, and there is insufficient evidence for its benefits in idiopathic neuropathy. Acupuncture appears to improve nerve conduction study parameters…
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Prevalence of Frozen Shoulder in Patients with Type 1 Diabetes
An article in Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation had some published statistics that surprised me. The authors were wanting to know the prevalence of frozen shoulder in Type 1 diabetics, and they found that almost 60% of patients with Type 1 diabetes over 45 years old had frozen shoulder, and of those people, 73% had it…
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Top Cardiologist Blasts Nutrition Guidelines
by Larry Husten CardioBrief February 27, 2017 One of the world’s top cardiologists says that many of the major nutrition guidelines have no good basis in science. “I’m not a nutrition scientist and that may be an advantage because every week in the newspaper we read something is good for you and the same thing…