Category: Chiropractic
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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…
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The Comparative Effect of Episodes of Chiropractic and Medical Treatment on the Health of Older Adults
This study provides evidence of the comparative effectiveness of chiropractic care relative to medical-only services on the functional health of older adults during acute episodes of back care. Given the literature supporting a minimally effective chiropractic treatment level for back problems, this research provides additional support that such therapeutic levels are indeed beneficial in terms…
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Manipulating the Pain: Chiropractic and Other “Alternative” Treatments for Back Pain – Video
This is a video from the National Institute of Health. You are going to have to be a nerd like me to watch this, but since it is a lecture from a doctor I highly respect, it was easier for me : ) Runtime: 00:57:33 [Watch video]
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Spinal Manipulation vs. Nerve Root Injections
When comparing how patients with MRI confirmed herniated discs with nerve root impingement improved after spinal manipulation and nerve root injections, they found that there were no significant differences in outcomes between nerve root injections and spinal manipulation therapy. When considering direct procedure costs, the average cost of spinal manipulation was slightly less expensive. ~Dr. Broussard…
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Why not everyone with low back pain chooses chiropractic care
J Can Chiropr Assoc. 2013 Mar; 57(1): 6–9. PMCID: PMC3580998 Simon Dagenais, DC, PhD, MSc Introduction It has been estimated that low back pain (LBP) will affect 84% of the general adult population at some point in their life, with 49% reporting some LBP in the previous 6 months, 23% suffering from chronic LBP, and…