Category: Chiropractic
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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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Chiropractic Type Treatments Help With Migraine Prevention
In an evidence-based database, called the Cochrane Database, there is an article published that found that for the prevention of migraine headaches, there is evidence that spinal manipulation may be an effective treatment option with short-term effects similar to a commonly used effective drug called amitriptyline. So if you’re interested in starting a migraine prevention…
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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…
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Disc Herniations- Injections or Chiropractic Care?
August 14, 2014 by The Evidence Based Chiropractor Chiropractic, Low Back Pain Research 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 which is…
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Employers Need Chiropractic First and Sooner
From the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine comes a study that gives excellent direction to employers (and insurers) regarding the management of low back problems (LBP).1 The authors analyzed databases belonging to a large, self-insured company over the course of nine years to evaluate the direct and indirect costs of LBP for the company’s…
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FIBROMYALGIA: Manual Therapy Improves Function, Quality of Sleep and Depressive Symptoms
This paper reviewed a manual therapy protocol that helped with fibromyalgia. The therapist released several muscles to include the muscles under the skull, the upper chest muscles, the diaphram (breathing) muscle, and a muscle in the front of the hip. The therapist also used a low back decompression move and did a manipulation to the…
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Low Back Pain During Pregnancy Responds To Chiropractic Care
This article concluded that most pregnant patients undergoing chiropractic treatment reported clinically relevant improvement at all time points of 1 week, 1 month, 3 months, 6 m onths and 1 year. Outcomes of pregnant patients with low back pain undergoing chiropractic treatment: a prospective cohort study with short term, medium term and 1 year follow-up…
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What is the Best “Dose” of Chiropractic Type Treatment for Chronic Back Pain?
For people with chronic back pain (pain for more than 12 weeks), 12 chiropractic type treatments over 6 weeks provided the most cost effective relief. ~ Dr. Broussard Cost analysis related to dose-response of spinal manipulative therapy for chronic low back pain: outcomes from a randomized controlled trial – Full Text Article J Manipulative Physiol…