July 2022 Healthy News from Dr. Hoang's Chiropractic Clinic

The Montreal chiropractic care provides 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 for treatment of back pain, a choice not all back pain sufferers are aware of but may want to be. In a review of 83,025 insurance back pain claims, 28% of the patients underwent treatment with SMT. Of them, 24% received SMT initially, 4% delayed using SMT, and 72% didn’t undergo SMT at all. Caring for initial back pain episodes with spinal manipulation decreased the risk of imaging studies, injection procedures, and/or back surgery by close to 30% compared with no spinal manipulation treatment. Delayed SMT also raised the risk for these procedures. (1) A review of older Medicare chronic low back pain sufferers who underwent long-term care with SMT found that they described having higher health-related quality of life and satisfaction with care than those who experienced long-term care with prescription drug therapy. (2) Older Medicare chronic low back pain patients who initially chose opioid analgesic therapy experienced a higher rate of adverse drug events than the patients who chose SMT care. (3) Spinal manipulation is our “thing”! Delivering gentle, research-supported spinal manipulation in the form of gentle, well-researched 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 most recent spine research about 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 plan for the future direction of research and delivery of SMT.

$Dr. Hoang's Chiropractic Clinic shares information on the benefit of managing osteoporosis to avoid falls and fractures as well tips on how to do that.$

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MANAGE OSTEOPOROSIS: Risk, Falls, Care

Osteoporosis-related falls are so common as osteoporosis is one of the most prevalent skeletal diseases. A review of two studies of older men and women with osteoporosis counted their falls. Overall, falls within 4 months were documented to be signs of higher risk for non-spine and hip fracture in the next 12 months. For women, a recent fall signaled an 8.1% absolute risk of non-spine fracture in 12 months, 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. Dr. Hoang's Chiropractic Clinic is here to help you avoid 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 Montreal chiropractic treatment plan for osteoporosis management. (5,6) Researchers observed that patients understood the benefit of non-pharmacological management of osteoporosis including exercise, nutrition, and fall prevention but confessed that they had a hard time incorporating these approaches into daily life. (6) Is that you? We’re here to help! Let’s talk about osteoporosis and fall risk at your next visit!

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