Healthy News - January 2021
Federally directed insurance coverage for chiropractic care tends to limit chiropractic regardless of the benefits chiropractic delivers to recipients. For example, chiropractic care for Medicare recipients visiting chiropractors for back pain is merely covered for spinal manipulation even though no evidence showing an increase in serious risks associated with chiropractic care of back or neck pain for these Medicare patients. As a matter of fact, research has shown that chiropractic care improved the time of recovery, reduced the number of back surgeries in a year, decreased opioid-linked disability, diminished the number of falls and traumatic injuries, slowed 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 case in point is that regardless of new professional and insurance guidelines for clinical decision-making regarding back pain care, the Federal Employees Compensation Act still requires x-rays for chiropractic care to be reimbursed for care. (2) In place of imaging today, other less costly and more effective ways are research-documented to determine if spinal manipulation is suitable. Researchers are so sophisticated as to be 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, gender, height, extension ability, response to STarT Back Tool questionnaire. (3) The benefits of chiropractic care continue to expand and to be recorded, primed for recognition by providers as they are already recognized by Plainville back and neck pain patient recipients. Layden Chiropractic 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 described as positive. A recent paper states that taking this combo decreased overall risk of early death about as effectively as routine exercise. (The authors do not recommend not exercising though!) (4) Another study of 77,510 supplement users found that people who used glucosamine (alone or with chondroitin) were found to have a significantly lower risk of death. Additionally, current users had a significantly lower risk of death from cancer. (5) Even more precisely, regular use of glucosamine was linked to a significantly lower risk of total cardiovascular disease issues and death, coronary heart disease and stroke. (6) Layden Chiropractic has certainly seen 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 us talk at your next Plainville chiropractic visit!
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