Category: Back Pain & Sciatica
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How The Health Care System Is Making Pain Patients Worse
SRIDHAR VASUDEVAN, MD MARCH 3, 2015 Over 100 million Americans suffer from chronic pain such as spinal disorders (lower back pain, disc disease, pinched nerves and neck pain), complex regional pain syndrome, fibromyalgia and headaches. The cost of chronic pain in human suffering, lost worker productivity and in health care dollars is counted in the…
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Back Pain and Posture
Low back pain (LBP) is one of the most common ailments that chiropractors treat. That’s probably because MOST of us will suffer from low back pain that requires outside help at some point in our lives! Posture has long been studied as a potential cause of low back pain, and this month’s topic will take…
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Cholesterol and Low Back Pain
In this article published in the journal SPINE, the authors concluded that if some of the arteries that supply the lower back are clogged, it can be associated with disc degeneration, and if the bad cholesterol was high, it was associated with more nerve pain and higher levels of pain. ~ Dr. Broussard MR Aortography…
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Back-Related Leg Pain: Spine Manipulation Helps
Troy Brown, RN September 16, 2014 In patients with back-related leg pain (BRLP), spinal manipulative therapy (SMT) plus home exercise and advice (HEA) provided more short-term improvement in pain and function than HEA alone, according to a recent study. Gert Bronfort, DC, PhD, from the Center for Spirituality & Healing, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, and…
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Chiropractic Treatment Helps Back-Related Leg Pain
In a study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, the authors found that combining spinal manipulation along with a home based exercise program and advice is better than home exercises and advice alone. ~ Dr. Broussard by Shara Yurkiewicz, Staff Writer, MedPage Today 2014-09-15 Action Points Note that this randomized trial comparing spinal manipulation…
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Chiropractic Treatment Helps Pain Associated With Degenerative Disc Disease
In this article published in Archives of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, the authors concluded that a treatment that most chiropractors use directed at the lumbosacral joint, on men with degenerative disk disease, immediately improves self-perceived pain, spinal mobility in flexion, and hip flexion mobility and subjects’ full height. ~ Dr. Broussard Short-Term Effect of Spinal…
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ACUPUNCTURE: Ear Acupuncture for a Lumbar Herniated Disc
This is a case study published in the British Medical Journal, where they treated a woman who was suffering with a lumbar herniated disc. They used acupuncture needles in her EARS to fix the disc herniation! She suffered for 2 years, and then after 7 weeks of acupuncture, she didn’t hurt anymore, and the follow-up MRI showed that…
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Problems Persist For High-Profile Back Surgery
Dallas Morning News 11:05 PM on Aug 23, 2014 Christine Harrison suffered from a chronically sore back. Watching Fox & Friends one morning, she saw an interview with a doctor who promised “excellent pain relief” for people like her. The doctor was promoting North American Spine, a high-profile Dallas company, and its trademark AccuraScope surgery. “The way…
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Low Back Herniated Discs Can Affect The Jaw Joint
The whole body is connected in some way. An article published in BMC Research Notes found that people with a herniated disc in their lower back have an associated abnormal movement in their jaw joints. ~ Dr. Broussard Effects of intervertebral disc disorders of low back on the mandibular kinematic: kinesiographic study BMC Res Notes…
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Disc Herniations- Injections or Chiropractic Care?
August 14, 2014 Disc Herniations- Injections or Chiropractic Care? – by The Evidence Based Chiropractor Disc herniations (also known as slipped discs, disc bulges, disc extrusions, etc) are a common problem which can lead to disabling pain. Pain down the extremities (arms or legs) is called radicular pain and can stem from a disc herniation…