August 2023 Healthy News from Dr. Hoang's Chiropractic Clinic Less Gabapentin Prescription and Pain with Chiropractic Care Back Pain & Hip Flexibility Link
Back pain is disruptive. Its sufferers desire relief. Wouldn’t it be terrific if a pill would deliver it?! Many back pain sufferers enter the back pain relief medical system and are prescribed meds first. They take them in hopes that they’ll get relief. (Because this is so common, we chiropractors acknowledge that we need to be well-trained in identifying patients who may deal with a substance use issue and understand how to help if the use is an issue. (1)) Recent research states that the first-choice healthcare provider makes a difference in patients’ utilization of healthcare services. A review of 29,806 patient cases that looked at the year following the first visit for back pain found that utilization of healthcare services was less for those who decided on chiropractic care first. The greatest health care utilization was noted for those who visited the emergency room as their first healthcare visit for back pain relief. (2) Another study noted that for patients under age 50 who are dealing with low back pain, two common options of care and of care providers are spinal manipulation from a chiropractor and pharmacological prescription of gabapentin from a medical provider. Prescriptions for gabapentin were significantly less for those who underwent chiropractic spinal manipulative care than those who underwent usual medical care. (3) Your chiropractor appreciates the value of interdisciplinary care and works with healthcare colleagues for the benefit of our back pain patients whenever possible and the value of provider choice with regards to relief and care. Your Montreal chiropractor at Dr. Hoang's Chiropractic Clinic is poised to help our Montreal back pain patients with our effective chiropractic services!
Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Kurt Olding on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson about the many choices back pain patients in “The Spine Care ‘Supermarket’” and how choosing The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management helps manage the pain.
When the hips are tight, the back gets tense, and movement is altered. Remember: Everything is connected! Researchers who compared hip rotation range of motion in participants who had back pain and those who didn’t found that those with low back pain had extremely restricted hip lateral rotation range of motion. (4) Luckily, there are ways to improve hip flexibility. One new method is auricular acupressure. What is that? Ask at your next appointment, but it improved hip flexibility (and back pain!) in one new study. (5) Another study hyped the benefit of core stability exercise and hip muscle stretching as effective at improving physical function and activity in non-specific low back pain patients. (6) Let’s check your hip flexibility out at your next Montreal chiropractic appointment and plan a way to boost it!
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