August 2023 Healthy News from Hollstrom & Associates Inc Less Gabapentin Prescription and Pain with Chiropractic Care Back Pain & Hip Flexibility Link
Back pain is disruptive. Its sufferers want relief. Wouldn’t it be amazing if a pill would do it?! Many back pain sufferers enter the back pain relief medical system and are prescribed meds first. They take them in hopes that they’ll get relief. (Because this is so common, 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 an issue. (1)) Recent research notes that the first-choice healthcare provider makes a difference in patients’ utilization of healthcare services. An assessment of 29,806 patient cases that analyzed utilization of healthcare for the year following the first visit and found that use was less for those who decided on chiropractic care first. The highest health care utilization was seen for those who went to the emergency room as their first step into healthcare for back pain relief. (2) Another study documented that for patients under 50 years old who are experiencing low back pain, two common 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 used usual medical care. (3) Your chiropractor appreciates 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.
When the hips are tight, the back gets stressed, and movement is altered. Remember: Everything is connected! 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 extremely 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 improved hip flexibility (and back pain!) in a 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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