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August 2023 Healthy News from Hollstrom & Associates Inc Less Gabapentin Prescription and Pain with Chiropractic Care Back Pain & Hip Flexibility Link

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Choosing Chiropractic Care First for Back Pain: Fewer Prescriptions for Gabapentin, Less Pain and Healthcare Use

Back pain is challenging. Its sufferers want relief. Would it not be wonderful if a pill would deliver it?! Many back pain sufferers enter the back pain relief medical system and are given prescriptions for meds first. They take them with hope for relief of pain. (Because this is so customary, we chiropractors acknowledge that we need to be well-trained to identify patients who may deal with a substance use issue and understand how to help if the use is a problem. (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 lower for those who chose chiropractic first. The greatest health care utilization was noted for those who went to the emergency room as their first healthcare visit for back pain relief. (2) Another study noted that for patients under age 50 who are suffering low back pain, two usual 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 used chiropractic spinal manipulative care than those who underwent usual medical care. (3) Your chiropractor recognizes the value of interdisciplinary care and communicates with healthcare colleagues for the benefit of our back pain patients whenever possible and the value of provider choice in terms of relief and care. Your Largo chiropractor at Hollstrom & Associates Inc is confident to help our Largo 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.

 
TIP OF THE MONTH: Improve Hip Flexibility, Relieve Back Pain

When the hips are tight, the back gets stressed, and movement is modified. Remember: Everything is linked! Researchers who evaluated hip rotation range of motion in participants who reported back pain and those who did not found that those with low back pain had remarkably 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 enhanced hip flexibility (and back pain!) in one new study. (5) Another study touted 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) We can check your hip flexibility out at your next Largo chiropractic appointment and plan a way to maximize it!

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