Healthy News - January 2021
Federally directed insurance coverage for chiropractic care is more likely to limit chiropractic despite the benefits chiropractic delivers to recipients. For example, chiropractic care for Medicare recipients seeing chiropractors for back pain is merely covered for spinal manipulation despite a lack of evidence showing an increase in serious risks associated with chiropractic care of neck or back pain for these Medicare patients. As a matter of fact, research has demonstrated that chiropractic care sped up recovery, reduced the number of back surgeries in a year, reduced opioid-linked disability, shrank 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 example is that even though new professional and insurance guidelines for clinical decision-making regarding back pain care, the Federal Employees Compensation Act still requires x-rays for chiropractic care to be reimbursed for care. (2) In place of imaging today, other less costly and more effective ways are research-documented to figure out if spinal manipulation is suitable. Researchers are so experienced that they are now 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 expand and to be documented, just waiting to be recognized by insurers as our La Grande chiropractic patients already do!. Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC provides pain-relieving care despite the payment system.
La Grande CHIROPRACTIC TIP OF THE MONTH:
Glucosamine and Chondroitin: Not Just for The Disc Anymore!
Taking glucosamine/chondroitin supplements is more and more described as positive. A new paper states that taking this combo decreased overall risk of early death about as effectively as routine exercise. (The authors do not recommend not exercising though!) (4) Another study of 77,510 supplement users found that people who consumed glucosamine (alone or with chondroitin) had 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) Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC has certainly recognized the beneficial use of glucosamine and chondroitin to care for degenerated 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’s talk at your next La Grande chiropractic visit!
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