Healthy News October 2022 National Chiropractic Health Month!

Baton Rouge  chiropractic care is being celebrated in this National Chiropractic Health Month. Spine & Sports Rehab Center describes how its non-drug approach benefits spine pain, back pain, neck pain, and related pain management and even decreases use/need for opioids.  

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

At Spine & Sports Rehab Center, October is National Chiropractic Care Month. One positive chiropractic benefit is the impact it has on pain management and relief without drugs. Researchers reported that the use of opioids for acute pain management is quite common, but come patients have a tolerance to or dependence on opioids and don’t prefer an opioid prescription. For these patients, non-pharmacological pain interventions included chiropractic care, manual therapy, electrical nerve stimulation, yoga, exercise, physical therapy, bracing, hot/cold, massage, etc., as well as behavioral and psychological therapies like 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 nearly half the risk of receiving a prescription for an opioid. (2) A 9356 chiropractic patient study of a total of 55,949 Medicare spine pain patients reported a 56% lower risk of filling an opioid prescription within a year of the initial visit. Chiropractic care was associated with a significantly decreased risk of filling a prescription for opioids. (3) A Canadian study of noncancer spine patients found that 24% of them received 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 initiated chiropractic care within the first 30 days of pain. (4) In this National Chiropractic Health Month, your Baton Rouge chiropractor at Spine & Sports Rehab Center welcomes all who are seeking a non-drug, more natural approach 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 benefits of The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.

Spine & Sports Rehab Center encourages our chiropractic patients to enjoy some time in nature! Interacting with nature is good for young and old alike, inspires independence, pleasure, and for dementia sufferers quite possibly even memory-triggering. 

Baton Rouge CHIROPRACTIC TIP OF THE MONTH: Enjoy Nature!

Young and old equally benefit from interacting with nature. Too many Baton Rouge folks stay indoors or interact too much with our tech to get out in nature. The benefits of nature interaction are expanding especially for those who are getting older and/or coping with dementia. New 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 precede a 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 engagement with nature might generate memories of past such interactions, people, and places to sustain a sense of self, too. (6) As one paper speculated 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)! Spine & Sports Rehab Center 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! Set your next Baton Rouge chiropractic visit with Spine & Sports Rehab Center now!

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