CHIROPRACTIC MANIPULATION FOR
SPORTS-RELATED BACK PAIN
Low back pain
in adult athletes is common with a lifetime prevalence of 63%.
The annual
prevalence was 51%. Risk factors were a prior occurrence
of low back pain, high training volume, and periods of load increase
and exposure to such.
(1) What are
treatment options? Physician members of the American
Medical Society for Sports Medicine reported using a number of different complementary
alternative medicine treatments for sports related pain problems. A
recent survey of these physicians found that 88% of the
11% who replied that they had suggested
CAM had done so for at least one type of CAM in the last 12 months.
The top 3 types of CAM recommended were
chiropractic/osteopathic manipulation, acupuncture/electroacupuncture and yoga.
(2) Another study stated that 53.1% of physicians recommended
at least one such CAM approach in the past 12 months.
Massage therapy,
chiropractic/osteopathic manipulation, herbs/non-vitamin
supplements, yoga, and acupuncture were most recommended.
Family/general family practice physicians suggested
chiropractic/osteopathic manipulation most often. Female more than male physicians were more prone to
suggest massage, herbs/supplements, yoga, acupuncture, and
mind-body therapies.
(3) Our chiropractic clinic invites all
referrals and appreciates that our chiropractic spinal
manipulation tops the list of medical physician referrals! And
our Cox®
Technic spinal manipulation is safe, gentle and useful.
Listen to this PODCAST
with Dr. Leisa Grugula on The
Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson a chiropractic back
pain specialist in Arizona who shared a couple cases of
athletes with back pain she helped get back to their sports utilizing
the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.
West Palm Beach CHIROPRACTIC TIP OF THE MONTH:
Osteoporosis Preventative Diet and Nutrition
Osteoporosis develops later in life yet is
preventable by modifying diet and lifestyle starting
in childhood. Improved nutrition and a decrease in consumption of sugar, saturated fat, sodium, and phosphorous are good starts. Adequate
levels of vitamin D and calcium are quite important along with
vitamins K, C, Bs, magnesium, potassium, iron, zinc, copper, fluorine, boron,
silicon, and manganese. Diet recommendations consist of increased
dairy, fish, fruits, and vegetables intake. (4) Chiropractic Care takes care
of quite a few osteoporotic patients in our practice and
are ready to help with treatment and prevention approaches.
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