HOPE FOR KNEE AND HIP OSTEOARTHRITIS:
Distraction and Patient Education and Exercise
Osteoarthritis in the knee and hip are known
and growing concerns as our society gets older…around the world. Currently
in 2021, Canada is reviewing the “Good Life with Osteoarthritis
in Demark” (GLAD) program for knee and hip
osteoarthritis. The program combines manual therapy,
exercise and patient education. (1) One GLAD study had patients attend 2-3 patient education classes and 12
supervised exercise sessions in 8 weeks, patients’
pain intensity improved 26-33%, walking speed got better
by 8-12%, chair standability improved 18-30%,
and joint-related quality of life improved 12-26%. (2) (Another
study used MRI to guage the thickness of
knee joint cartilage after distracting the knee joint
to find that it increased with treatment bringing
about significant short- and long-term cartilage regeneration
up to 10 years post-treatment. (3) This was performed
with young people, but there is hope!) Back in 2017, a Canadian
chiropractor published a paper describing his utilization of Cox® flexion-distraction-principle-based
distraction to the osteoarthritic knee, and the success he has seen
in his patients. Inclusively (acute and chronic patients combined),
patients related a mean visual analog scale score drop
from 7.7 to 1.8 in 3 weeks and 5.3 treatments. Acute knee OA
patients’ scores dropped from 8.1 to 1.1 in 4.8
treatments in 2.4 weeks. Chronic patients’ scores decrased
from 7.5 to 2.2 in 3.3 weeks and 5.4 treatments. (4) Chiropractors like yours
at Spine & Sports Rehab Center are ahead of the curve with their modified Cox® Technic
principles-based-flexion-distraction-approach to knee osteoarthritis. Novel
protocols for use in hip OA are also in development. Talk with us
today about how distraction treatment may help you with Baton Rouge
osteoarthritis of the knee and hip!
HOPE FOR DEGENERATED
DISCS: Chondroitin Sulfate
Back pain treatment
approaches from
surgery to manual therapy to exercise to nutrition flourish while
back pain continues. Injecting hyaluronic acid hydrogel is demonstrating
some promise as it seems to suppress
the loss of disc height, stimulate tissue hydration for disc
repair, and reduce inflammation and innervation to ward
off more disc degeneration. (5) The nutritional approach continues
to show promise for back pain sufferers as the disc matrix
components are identified, two key components
being chondroitin sulfate proteoglycan and hyaluronan. Making chondroitin sulfate
available to the disc as well as controlling the
hydrostatic pressure of the disc is helpful.
(6) Cox® Technic is documented to decrease intradiscal
pressure, so combining it with chondroitin sulfate may be, too. Are
you including it in your daily supplements? You may want
to think about including a disc supplement that
has chondroitin sulfate to your schedule after we
talk. Spine & Sports Rehab Center is ready!
Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. James Cox
on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael
Johnson as he discusses the
role of chondroitin sulfate in the health,
degeneration and possible regeneration of the intervertebral disc
and in the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain
Management.
CONTACT Spine & Sports Rehab Center
Schedule your next Baton Rouge chiropractic appointment
with Spine & Sports Rehab Center. See you then!
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