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Healthy News April 2023 Choosing the Back Pain Care Option for You and Adding Turmeric for Anti-Inflammatory Help

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THE ‘SUPERMARKET’ OF BACK PAIN CARE OPTIONS: How to Choose?

“Supermarkets” are great for food shopping but not necessarily for attaining relief of Montreal back pain, understanding the basis of back pain, nor waking up each day and functioning with hope. A new back pain sufferer may well get lost in this “supermarket” of healthcare options. Researchers described this comparison of back pain care options to goods on shelves in a supermarket as they saw this at their meetings where the latest in back pain care options were excitedly presented next to each other with each approach’s supporters telling about their outcomes (some with solid, accurately presented research evidence, some without). (1) It’s no wonder that back pain sufferers – who are not alone with a lifetime likelihood of low back pain for all of us being 85% (2) – are overwhelmed. That’s where our teamwork comes into play. You share your expectations. We will share the best evidence to create a treatment plan to help you recover. Researchers analyzed patient preferences and goals for non-surgical treatment of chronic low back pain and reported that these are important to patient outcomes. (3) YOUR goals of care are key: Do you want to walk more? Sleep better? Understand your pain better? YOUR preferences for care are important:  Do you feel spinal manipulation is for you? Or supervised rehab? Or psychotherapy?? Supervised therapy? Talk to a therapist?]33] As your Montreal chiropractor, I want to know them. Those will direct your care and improve your clinical outcomes. We understand that conservative care for 4 to 6 weeks is recommended (in the absence of progressive neurological deficits and/or cauda equina syndrome) prior to imaging. (4) We also recognize that spinal manipulation is one of the top conservative advocated treatments. (5) When you are experiencing back pain, let us be your personal shopper, finding you the approach of chiropractic services to help you best!

Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Kurt Olding  on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he describes both The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management and the healthcare path for back pain relief that is often confusing and non-congruent with current suggestions for the non-surgical, conservative care of back pain. 

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TIP OF THE MONTH: Consider Anti-Inflammatory Turmeric

Turmeric (curcuma longa L.) is a plant well-recognized for its anti-inflammatory properties due to its polyphenolic curcuminoids. In a scoping review of published papers, researchers determined that current evidence is great that suggests clinical benefit from taking turmeric for its anti-inflammatory benefits, particularly in inflammation-associated diseases like obesity-related metabolic disorders or musculoskeletal disorders (like back and neck pain). (6) Researchers always want more research to conclusively recommend dosages and formulations. In the meantime, Dr. Hoang's Chiropractic Clinic and you can chat about how adding turmeric to your nutrition plan may enhance your pain relief and healing.

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