Who Gets Back Surgery As It Turns Out Is Heavily Dependent On Which Type Of Doctor A Person Sees First. Back injuries are the most common work place injury. A study looked at the early predictors of low back spine surgery within 3 years among Washington State workers that had recently injured their back at […]
Chiropractic Reduces Opiate Use
Further Evidence That Chiropractic Care Can Reduce Opiate Use. The opiod epidemic is a very serious problem. Most people don’t realize how big a problem this is in our country. It’s causing a massive amount of suffering and deaths in the US. Every single day more than 115 people in the US die after overdosing […]
More Chiropractic Care = Less Opiate Use
Can Chiropractic Care Help Reduce The Growing Opiod Crisis? An interesting 2016 study looked at how the number of Chiropractors in an area and amount of Medicare dollars spent on Chiropractic Care correlated with the amount of opiod use by younger Medicare recipients. These were neck and back pain sufferers younger than 65 years of […]
The NIH’s Solution To The Chronic Pain Crisis(?)
The National Institutes of Health Agenda. Will More Drugs Help Solve (The Pain and) Opiate Crisis? An excellent article in a recent publication (Dynamic Chiropractic) asks this very good question… Pain medications (Opiates) have become a huge problem causing a massive amount of suffering in people… men, women, families, and even babies! Yes, we now […]
JAMA Study: Try Physical Treatments for Back Pain, Hip and Knee Arthritis
Journal of the AMA Report on Chronic Back Pain, Hip, and Knee Arthritis Recommends Avoiding Opiates, Instead Try Physical Treatments Patients with chronic back pain, hip pain, and knee arthritis pain should first seek relief through non-opioid medications as well as exercise, rehabilitation, and other non-medication treatments, according to researchers of a recent study in […]
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