Healthy News October 2022

Vancouver chiropractic care is being celebrated in this National Chiropractic Health Month. Vancouver Disc Centers shares how its non-drug approach benefits spine pain, back pain, neck pain, and related pain management and even reduces use/need for opioids.

National Chiropractic Care Month: Chiropractic Care Reduces Need for/Use of Opioids for Pain

At Vancouver Disc Centers, October is National Chiropractic Care Month. One beneficial aspect of chiropractic is the impact it has on pain relief and management without drugs. Researchers reported that using opioids for acute pain management is quite common, but certain patients experience a tolerance to or dependence on opioids and do not prefer an opioid prescription. For such patients, non-pharmacological pain interventions incorporated chiropractic care, manual therapy, electrical nerve stimulation, yoga, exercise, physical therapy, bracing, hot/cold, massage, etc., along with behavioral and psychological therapies such as hypnosis, meditation, mindfulness, breathing, etc. Multimodal approaches like this may be beneficial. (1) Chiropractic offers non-drug pain management. Comparing chiropractic neck pain or back pain patients to non-chiropractic care patients found that the chiropractic patients had almost half the risk of obtaining a prescription for an opioid. (2) A study of the 9356 US chiropractic patients of a total of 55,949 Medicare spine pain patients reported a 56% lower risk of filling an opioid prescription within 12 months of the first visit. Chiropractic care was associated with a significantly lower risk of filling an opioid prescription. (3) A Canadian study of noncancer spine patients found that 24% of them were given an opioid prescription. The odds of starting the opioids at one year was 52% less for chiropractic care patients and 71% less in chiropractic patients who began chiropractic care within the first 30 days of pain. (4) In this National Chiropractic Health Month, your Vancouver chiropractor at Vancouver Disc Centers welcomes all who are seeking a non-drug, more natural path to health and pain relief!

Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. James Cox on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he describes the non-drug pain-relieving effects of The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.

Vancouver Disc Centers encourages our chiropractic patients to get out in nature! Interacting with nature is good for young and old alike, inspires independence, pleasure, and for dementia sufferers quite possibly even memory-triggering.

Vancouver CHIROPRACTIC TIP OF THE MONTH: Enjoy Nature!

Young and old equally gain from interacting with nature. Too many Vancouver folks stay inside or interact too much with our tech to get out in nature. The benefits of nature interaction are growing especially for those who are aging and/or coping with dementia. Recent studies documented how the connection with the natural world was significant for people coping with dementia, triggering a sense of comfort, pleasure, stimulation, meaning, and freedom which lead to higher quality of life, well-being, independence, identity, and social interaction. Nature supplied a sense of connection to self, place, and others. (5) Another study hopefully proposed that such an encounter with nature might generate memories of past such interactions, people, and places to keep a sense of self, too. (6) As one paper pondered in its title “connecting with the natural world – more than a breath of fresh air?” We’d say ‘yes’! Let us get out and enjoy nature (and a little exercise)! Vancouver Disc Centers is ready! Are you?

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In this National Chiropractic Care Month, we are even more thankful for you, our chiropractic patient family! Make your next Vancouver chiropractic appointment with Vancouver Disc Centers now!