Healthy News - January 2021
Federally directed insurance coverage for chiropractic care is more likely to restrict chiropractic despite the benefits chiropractic affords recipients. For example, chiropractic care for Medicare recipients seeing chiropractors for back pain is merely covered for spinal manipulation even though no evidence demonstrating a rise in serious risks associated with chiropractic care of back or neck pain for these Medicare patients. Actually, research has documented that chiropractic care improved the time of recovery, decreased the number of back surgeries in a year, lessened opioid-linked disability, shrank the number of falls and traumatic injuries, reduced the decline in activities of daily living and disability over time, and reduced costs and medical doctor visits for low back pain. (1) Another case in point is that even though new professional and insurance guidelines for clinical decision-making regarding back pain care, the Federal Employees Compensation Act still necessitates x-rays for chiropractic care to be reimbursed for care. (2) In place of imaging today, other less expensive and more effective ways are research-documented to determine if spinal manipulation is appropriate. Researchers are so sophisticated as to be able to predict which low back pain patients will respond to spinal manipulation as a nonpharmacologic intervention recommended in clinical care guidelines today and by how much depending on factors like medication and exercise expectation, pain frequency, gender, height, extension ability, response to STarT Back Tool questionnaire. (3) The benefits of chiropractic care continue to expand and to be recorded, just waiting to be realized by insurers as our Groton chiropractic patients already do!. Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office provides pain-relieving care despite the payment system.
Groton CHIROPRACTIC TIP OF THE MONTH:
Glucosamine and Chondroitin: Not Just for The Disc Anymore!
Taking glucosamine/chondroitin supplements is more and more described as positive. A new paper explains that using this combination reduced overall risk of early death about as efficiently as regular exercise. (The authors do not recommend not exercising though!) (4) Another study of 77,510 supplement users found that people who consumed glucosamine (alone or with chondroitin) had a significantly lower risk of death. Further, current users experienced a significantly lower risk of death from cancer. (5) Even more precisely, regular use of glucosamine was associated with a significantly lower risk of total cardiovascular disease issues and death, coronary heart disease and stroke. (6) Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office has indeed seen the beneficial use of glucosamine and chondroitin to take care of degenerated discs associated with back pain and neck pain. These additional benefits just raise the bar for the benefit of glucosamine and chondroitin. Are you taking yours? Let us talk at your next Groton chiropractic visit!
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