July 2022 Healthy News from Amelia Chiropractic Clinic

The Fernandina Beach chiropractic care offers spinal manipulation which research is describing as beneficial for pain relief, improved quality of life, and decreased 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 know about but may want to be. In a review of 83,025 insurance back pain claims, 28% of the claimants underwent treatment with SMT. Of them, 24% received SMT initially, 4% delayed using SMT, and 72% did not undergo SMT at all. Caring for initial back pain episodes with spinal manipulation reduced the risk of imaging studies, injection procedures, and/or back surgery by close to 30% compared with not receiving spinal manipulation treatment. Delayed SMT also resulted in higher 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 reported higher health-related quality of life and satisfaction with care than those who underwent 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 forte! Delivering gentle, research-supported spinal manipulation in the form of gentle, well-investigated 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 details the latest spine research regarding the most advantageous method to treat spine, back, and neck pain with the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management mixed with a presentation of the past influences on the present delivery and path for the future direction of research and delivery of SMT.

$Amelia Chiropractic Clinic presents information on the benefit of managing osteoporosis to avoid falls and fractures as well tips on how to do that.$

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MANAGE OSTEOPOROSIS: Risk, Falls, Care

Osteoporosis-related falls are widespread 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 indicators of higher risk for non-spine and hip fracture in the next year. For women, a recent fall denoted an 8.1% absolute risk of non-spine fracture in a year, 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 higher fall risk. (4) Falls are bad. Amelia Chiropractic Clinic is ready to help you avert falls and osteoporosis-related fractures. We can discuss addressing options like nutrition (calcium and vitamin D supplementation, etc.), gut microbiota balance, and exercise within the Fernandina Beach 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 integrating these approaches into everyday life. (6) Is that you? Amelia Chiropractic Clinic is here to help! Let’s discuss osteoporosis and fall risk at your next appointment!

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