August 2023 Healthy News from Satterwhite Chiropractic Less Gabapentin Prescription and Pain with Chiropractic Care Back Pain & Hip Flexibility Link
Back pain is disruptive. Its sufferers desire relief. Would it not be great 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 with hope for relief of pain. (Because this is so customary, we chiropractors recognize that we need to be well-trained to identify patients who may deal with a substance use issue and know how to help if the use is an issue. (1)) Recent research notes that the first-choice healthcare provider is an influential factor 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 less for those who chose chiropractic first. The greatest health care utilization was noted for those who visited the emergency room as their first healthcare visit for back pain relief. (2) Another study shared that for patients under 50 years old who are experiencing 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 lower for those who used chiropractic spinal manipulative care than those who used 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 Oxford chiropractor at Satterwhite Chiropractic is confident to help our Oxford 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 variety of 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 modified. Remember: Everything is connected! Researchers who compared hip rotation range of motion in participants who experienced back pain and those who did not found that those with low back pain had extraordinarily 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 one new study. (5) Another study hyped the benefit of core stability exercise and hip muscle stretching as effective at enhancing physical function and activity in non-specific low back pain patients. (6) Let’s check your hip flexibility out at your next Oxford chiropractic appointment and plan a way to boost it!
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