Healthy News - January 2021
Federally directed insurance coverage for chiropractic care tends to limit chiropractic despite the benefits chiropractic delivers to recipients. For example, chiropractic care for Medicare recipients seeing chiropractors for back pain is merely covered for spinal manipulation even though no evidence showing a rise in serious risks associated with chiropractic care of neck or back pain for these Medicare patients. Actually, research has documented that chiropractic care improved the time of recovery, lessened the number of back surgeries in a year, reduced opioid-linked disability, diminished the number of falls and traumatic injuries, reduced the decline in activities of daily living and disability over time, and reduced costs and medical doctor visits for low back pain. (1) Another case in point is that even though 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) In place of imaging today, other less expensive and more valuable 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 depending on 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 expand and to be documented, just waiting to be recognized by insurers as our Sitka chiropractic patients already do!. Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka 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 ever more described as positive. A new paper explains that taking this combo reduced overall risk of early death about as efficiently as routine exercise. (The authors do not recommend not exercising though!) (4) Another study of 77,510 supplement users discovered that people who used glucosamine (alone or with chondroitin) had a significantly lower risk of death. Additionally, current users experienced 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) Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka has indeed seen the beneficial use of glucosamine and chondroitin to care for degenerative 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 Sitka chiropractic visit!
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