July 2022 Healthy News from Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office

The Groton chiropractic care offers spinal manipulation which research is describing as beneficial for pain relief, better quality of life, and reduced risk of prescription medication use and excess testing. 

SPINAL MANIPULATION: A Beneficial Choice for Relief of Back Pain, Better Quality of Life, Reduced Risk of Tests and Prescriptions

Spinal manipulation therapy (SMT) is a choice when it comes to options for managing back pain, a choice not all back pain patients know about but may want to be. In an analysis of 83,025 insurance back pain claims, 28% of the claimants were treated with SMT. Of them, 24% underwent SMT initially, 4% delayed using SMT, and 72% didn’t undergo SMT at all. Managing initial episodes of back pain with spinal manipulation reduced the risk of imaging studies, injection procedures, and/or back surgery by close to 30% compared with not receiving SMT. Delayed SMT also resulted in higher risk for these procedures. (1) A study of older Medicare chronic low back pain sufferers who underwent long-term care with SMT found that they reported higher health-related quality of life and satisfaction with care than those who underwent long-term care with prescription drug therapy. (2) Older Medicare chronic low back pain patients who initially chose opioid analgesic therapy reported a higher rate of adverse drug events than the patients who chose SMT care. (3) Spinal manipulation is our “thing”! Delivering gentle, research-documented spinal manipulation in the form of gentle, well-investigated Cox® Technic is our choice. Come experience it!

Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. James Cox on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he describes the latest spine research regarding the most advantageous method to treat spine, back, and neck pain with the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management mixed with a discussion of the past influences on the present delivery and path for the future direction of research and delivery of SMT.

Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office shares information on the benefit of managing osteoporosis to avoid falls and fractures as well tips on how to do that. 

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MANAGE OSTEOPOROSIS: Risk, Falls, Care

Osteoporosis-related falls are so common as osteoporosis is one of the most common skeletal diseases. A review of two studies of older men and women with osteoporosis tracked their falls. Overall, falls within 4 months were found to be indicators of higher risk for non-spine and hip fracture in the next year. In women, a recent fall denoted an 8.1% absolute risk of non-spine fracture in a year, a 2.5 times higher risk than women who had not had falls, a 2.5% absolute risk of hip fracture, and a 3.1 times increased fall risk. (4) Falls aren’t good. Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office is here to help you prevent falls and osteoporosis-related fractures. We can talk about addressing options like nutrition (calcium and vitamin D supplementation, etc.), gut microbiota balance, and exercise within the Groton chiropractic treatment plan for managing osteoporosis. (5,6) Researchers observed that patients understood the benefit of non-pharmacological management of osteoporosis including exercise, nutrition, and fall prevention but admitted that they found it hard integrating these approaches into everyday life. (6) Is that you? We’re here to help! Let’s discuss osteoporosis and fall risk at your next appointment!

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