May 2019 Healthy News: Sitka Chiropractic Benefits Chronic Pain (Without Opioids) & Athletes

Instead of opioids, Sitka chiropractic is beneficial for chronic pain management and relief.

Chronic Pain: Opioids? Use Chiropractic Instead.

Sitka chronic pain is extensive. Sitka opioid use is widespread. What’s an effective option? Chiropractic with Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka. Why? Opioids were welcomed as a pill answer for chronic pain…costs climbed, risks soared. Options and co-treatment approaches are demanded. In a research investigation of 62,000 patients in six studies of chiropractic utilization and opioid prescribing, usage of chiropractic care fluctuated from 11.3% to 51.3%. Patients who visited a chiropractor for their musculoskeletal pain problem were 49% less apt to obtain a prescription for an opioid than those who went to other healthcare providers. (1) Patients using on-going chiropractic care to manage their chronic low-back and neck pain expressed to researchers that their pain would be higher without such chiropractic care. Additionally, they are willing to pay for care to keep their mild pain levels. The “willingness to pay” cost ranges from $37.32 to $45.98. (2) Sitka chiropractic patients at Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka value their chiropractic care! Sitka chiropractic services benefit chronic pain in addition to or without opioids.

Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Vincent Pankonin on The Back Doctor’s Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson about how chronic back pain treatment without opioids using the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management permitted a patient to “forget” to visit him for a year as his pain was gone!

Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka offers spinal manipulation to athletes of all types – recreational and professional – to enhance their efforts.

Sitka CHIROPRACTIC TIP OF THE MONTH: Spinal Manipulation Before Sports

Sitka athletes – recreational and professional – crave that edge when they do their sport. Spinal manipulation could be that edge! Elite Taekwondo athletes felt improved muscle strength and corticospinal excitability to ankle plantar flexor muscles after just one spinal manipulation. The added force of the maximum voluntary contraction of the plantar flexors went on for 30 minutes and the corticospinal excitability increase persisted for not less than 60 minutes. (3) Virginia Tech football players – offensive and defensive - experienced improved performances in 2 football seasons during which they obtained pre-game spinal manipulation treatments. (4) A recent report shared that a single pre-exercise SMT brought about a heightened shift toward parasympathetic (the part of the autonomic nervous system in charge of regulating the body's unconscious actions) dominance and marginally diminished performance in recreational healthy athletes. (5) Time to try spinal manipulation for yourself! See if it enhances your edge. Let’s talk at your next Sitka chiropractic appointment.

CONTACT Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka

Make your Sitka chiropractic appointment. Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka is ready to help you control your chronic pain without opioids and help you not to be a part of today’s opioid epidemic and help Sitka athletes increase their edge! Thank you for entrusting your spine’s health to Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka!