Healthy News - January 2021
Federally directed insurance coverage for chiropractic care tends to limit chiropractic despite the benefits chiropractic affords recipients. For example, chiropractic care for Medicare recipients seeing chiropractors for back pain is only covered for spinal manipulation despite a lack of evidence showing a rise in serious risks related to chiropractic care of neck or back pain for these Medicare patients. As a matter of fact, research has shown that chiropractic care sped up recovery, decreased the number of back surgeries in a year, reduced opioid-linked disability, shrank the number of falls and traumatic injuries, reduced the decline in activities of daily living and disability over time, and lessened the costs and medical doctor visits for low back pain. (1) Another example is that regardless of new professional and insurance guidelines for clinical decision-making regarding back pain care, the Federal Employees Compensation Act still necessitates x-rays for chiropractic care to be reimbursed for care. (2) Rather than imaging today, other less costly and more effective ways are research-documented to determine if spinal manipulation is appropriate. Researchers are so experienced that they are now able to predict which low back pain patients will respond to spinal manipulation as a nonpharmacologic intervention recommended in clinical care guidelines today and by how much contingent upon factors like medication and exercise expectation, pain frequency, height, gender, extension ability, response to STarT Back Tool questionnaire. (3) The benefits of chiropractic care continue to grow and to be documented, primed for recognition by providers as they are already recognized by Largo back and neck pain patient recipients. Hollstrom & Associates Inc provides pain-relieving care despite the payment system.
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Glucosamine and Chondroitin: Not Just for The Disc Anymore!
Taking glucosamine/chondroitin supplements is more and more reported positive. A new paper explains that using this combination reduced overall risk of early death about as effectively as regular exercise. (The authors do not recommend not exercising though!) (4) Another study of 77,510 supplement users discovered that people who consumed glucosamine (alone or with chondroitin) were found to have a significantly lower risk of death. Further, current users had a significantly lower risk of death from cancer. (5) Even more precisely, regular use of glucosamine was associated with a significantly lower risk of total cardiovascular disease issues and death, coronary heart disease and stroke. (6) Hollstrom & Associates Inc has certainly recognized the beneficial use of glucosamine and chondroitin to care for degenerated discs associated with back pain and neck pain. These additional benefits just raise the bar for the benefit of glucosamine and chondroitin. Are you taking yours? Let’s talk at your next Largo chiropractic visit!
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