July 2022 Healthy News from Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre

The Toronto chiropractic care provides spinal manipulation which research is describing as beneficial for pain relief, better quality of life, and decreased risk of prescription medication use and excess testing.

SPINAL MANIPULATION: A Beneficial Choice for Relief of Back Pain, Better Quality of Life, Reduced Risk of Tests and Prescriptions

Spinal manipulation therapy (SMT) is a choice for treatment of back pain, a choice not all back pain patients are aware of but may want to be. In an analysis of 83,025 insurance back pain claims, 28% of the patients were treated with SMT. Of them, 24% underwent SMT initially, 4% delayed using SMT, and 72% did not received SMT at all. Managing initial back pain episodes with spinal manipulation decreased the risk of imaging studies, injection procedures, and/or back surgery by nearly 30% compared with not receiving SMT. Delayed SMT also resulted in higher risk for these procedures. (1) A study of older Medicare chronic low back pain sufferers who underwent long-term care with SMT revealed that they described having higher health-related quality of life and satisfaction with care than those who experienced long-term care with prescription drug therapy. (2) Older Medicare chronic low back pain patients who initially chose opioid analgesic therapy experienced a higher rate of adverse drug events than the patients who chose SMT care. (3) Spinal manipulation is our “thing”! Delivering gentle, research-documented spinal manipulation in the form of gentle, well-researched Cox® Technic is our choice. Come experience it!

Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. James Cox on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he details the latest spine research regarding the optimal method to treat spine, back, and neck pain with the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management mixed with a presentation of the past influences on the present delivery and plan for the future direction of research and delivery of SMT.

$Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre presents information on the benefit of managing osteoporosis to avoid falls and fractures as well tips on how to do that.$

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MANAGE OSTEOPOROSIS: Risk, Falls, Care

Osteoporosis-related falls are so common as osteoporosis is one of the most prevalent skeletal diseases. A review of two studies of older men and women with osteoporosis counted their falls. Overall, falls within 4 months were found to be indicators of higher risk for non-spine and hip fracture in the next 12 months. For women, a recent fall signaled an 8.1% absolute risk of non-spine fracture in 12 months, a 2.5 times higher risk than women who had not had falls, a 2.5% absolute risk of hip fracture, and a 3.1 times higher fall risk. (4) Falls aren’t good. Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre is here to help you avert falls and osteoporosis-related fractures. We can talk about addressing options like nutrition (calcium and vitamin D supplementation, etc.), gut microbiota balance, and exercise within the Toronto chiropractic treatment plan for osteoporosis management. (5,6) Researchers observed that patients understood the benefit of non-pharmacological management of osteoporosis including exercise, nutrition, and fall prevention but admitted that they found it hard integrating these approaches into everyday life. (6) Is that you? We’re here to help! Let’s discuss osteoporosis and fall risk at your next appointment!

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