Healthy News - January 2021
Federally directed insurance coverage for chiropractic care tends to restrict chiropractic despite the benefits chiropractic affords recipients. For example, chiropractic care for Medicare recipients seeing chiropractors for back pain is only covered for spinal manipulation despite no evidence showing a rise in serious risks related to chiropractic care of back or neck pain for these Medicare patients. Actually, research has shown that chiropractic care sped up recovery, lessened the number of back surgeries in a year, reduced opioid-linked disability, diminished the number of falls and traumatic injuries, slowed 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 effective ways are research-documented to ascertain if spinal manipulation is appropriate. 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 grow and to be documented, just waiting to be recognized by insurers as our Vancouver chiropractic patients already do!. Vancouver Disc Centers 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 reported positive. A recent paper states that using this combo decreased overall risk of early death about as efficiently as routine exercise. (The authors do not recommend not exercising though!) (4) Another review of 77,510 supplement users found that people who took glucosamine (alone or with chondroitin) were found to have a significantly lower risk of death. Further, current users had a significantly lower risk of death from cancer. (5) Even more specifically, regular use of glucosamine was linked to a significantly lower risk of total cardiovascular disease issues and death, coronary heart disease and stroke. (6) Vancouver Disc Centers has certainly seen the beneficial use of glucosamine and chondroitin to take care of degenerative discs related to 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 Vancouver chiropractic visit!
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