Invest in your health.

Your health affects everything you do and everyone you know. With so many people depending on you, it makes sense to invest in your health. A program of chiropractic checkup can help you be the caring parent, the loving spouse, the understanding friend, or the dependable employee. Invest in your health. You’re worth it!

A ground breaking study in 2004 by Descarreaux et al.  looked at the Efficacy of preventive spinal manipulation for chronic low-back pain and related disabilities: a preliminary study. Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics (2004) vol. 27 (8) pp. 509-14

The majority of LBP patients are still symptomatic after one year (only 21% pain free) ~10% of LBP patients generate more than 80% of the costs.

Primary prevention of LBP is suggested to be unattainable, so researchers have focused on secondary and tertiary prevention

Reviews have concluded that for chronic LBP that there is strong evidence manipulation is more effective than placebo and moderate evidence that it is more effective than usual care
Maintenance care is often prescribed by chiropractors (a US survey showed ~95% believe in its use to minimize recurrence) although they agree research for its efficacy is lacking

• 10 month study of 12 treatments (control and treatment group)
• 30 patients with chronic nonspecific LBP
• lumbar roll and SI only manipulation used
• phase 1 both groups received treatments (3x/wk)
• second phase only experimental group received treatment every 3 weeks (only SMT)
• chiros only asked questions about chief complaint, no other therapies were given

Results:

• 1 month control period (waiting) did not modify pain or disability
• both groups had significant reduction in pain after phase 1
• maintenance group had significantly lower pain and disability scores after 10 months
• lower than control and lower then their own scores after phase 1

Chiropractors aren’t just for treating you once you’ve been hurt, they can help you take preventative measures as well to maintain a pain free lifestyle throughout your life!

Preventative Care can look different for every patient but often it looks like a chiropractic adjustment once every 4- 6 weeks; Dr. J calls these visits ‘tune- ups’ to keep you going!