May 2019 Healthy News: Groton Chiropractic Benefits Chronic Pain (Without Opioids) & Athletes
Groton chronic pain is rampant. Groton opioid use is epidemic. What’s an effective option? Chiropractic with Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office. Why? Opioids were welcomed as a pill answer for chronic pain…costs climbed, risks increased. Options and co-treatment approaches are demanded. In a research analysis of 62,000 patients in 6 studies of chiropractic use and opioid prescribing, use of chiropractic care ranged from 11.3% to 51.3%. Patients who saw a chiropractor for their musculoskeletal pain problem were 49% less liable to obtain a prescription for an opioid than those who went to other healthcare providers. (1) Patients using routine chiropractic care to manage their chronic low-back and neck pain expressed to researchers that their pain would be more without such chiropractic care. Additionally, they are willing to pay for care to maintain their mild pain levels. The “willingness to pay” cost ranges from $37.32 to $45.98. (2) Groton chiropractic patients at Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office value their chiropractic care! Groton chiropractic services benefit chronic pain in addition to or without opioids.
Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Vincent Pankonin on The Back Doctor’s Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson about how chronic back pain treatment without opioids utilizing the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management permitted a patient to “forget” to visit him for a year as his pain was gone!
Groton athletes – recreational and professional – want that edge when they do their sport. Spinal manipulation might be just that! Elite Taekwondo athletes felt increased muscle strength and corticospinal excitability to ankle plantar flexor muscles after just one spinal manipulation. The added force of the maximum voluntary contraction of the plantar flexors lasted for 30 minutes and the corticospinal excitability increase continued for at least 60 minutes. (3) Virginia Tech football players – offensive and defensive - experienced increased performances in 2 football seasons during which they obtained pre-game spinal manipulation treatments. (4) A recent report said that a single pre-exercise SMT elicited a heightened shift toward parasympathetic (the part of the autonomic nervous system in charge of controlling the body's unconscious actions) dominance and slightly diminished performance in recreational healthy athletes. (5) Time to try spinal manipulation for yourself! See if it enhances your edge. Let’s talk at your next Groton chiropractic appointment.
CONTACT Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office
Make your Groton chiropractic appointment. Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office is ready to help you manage your chronic pain without opioids and enable you not to be a part of today’s opioid epidemic and help Groton athletes improve their edge! Thank you for entrusting your spine’s health to Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office!