This week a very interesting study came out of Australia which found chiropractic care can prevent injury. Check it out on the BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders website.
“The chiropractic group missed just four matches during the season through hamstring or lower limb muscle strains. The group not receiving chiropractic treatment missed 14 matches through hamstring injury and 21 matches through lower limb muscle strain.”
“The group receiving chiropractic treatment also had significant reductions in non-contact knee injuries, low back pain, and improvements in physical components of health, although this was not the goal of treatment”.
Interested in increased performance and fewer injuries? Call your San Francisco chiropractor, Berkeley chiropractor or Santa Rosa chiropractor.
WebMD for once has a decent article on back pain. They cite risks you can not control:
- Being middle-aged (risk drops after age 65).
- Being male.
- Having a family history of back pain.
- Having had a previous back injury.
- Being pregnant. A woman’s back is significantly stressed by carrying a baby.
- Having had compression fractures of the spine.
- Having had previous back surgery.
- Having spine problems since birth (congenital spine problems)
And risk factors you can change:
- Not getting regular exercise.
- Doing a job or other activity that requires long periods of sitting, lifting heavy objects, bending or twisting, repetitive motions, or constant vibration, such as using a jackhammer or driving certain types of heavy equipment.
- Smoking. Smokers are more likely than nonsmokers to have low back pain.
- Being overweight. Excess body weight, especially around the waist, may put strain on your back, although this has not been proven. But being overweight often also means being in poor physical condition, with weaker muscles and less flexibility. These can lead to low back pain.
- Having poor posture. Slumping or slouching alone may not cause low back pain, but after the back has been strained or injured, bad posture can make pain worse.
- Being under stress. Stress and other emotional factors are believed to play a major role in low back pain, particularly chronic low back pain. Many people unconsciously tighten their back muscles when they are under stress.
- Having long periods of depression.
- Using medicines long-term that weaken bones, such as corticosteroids.
Be wary of the factors you cannot change and the ones you can. If you still develop back pain call your San Francisco Chiropractor or Berkeley Chiropractor.
A new study in the Archives of Internal Medicine, “Low Back Pain and Best Practice Care” found that “The usual care provided by GPs for LBP does not match the care endorsed in international evidence-based guidelines and may not provide the best outcomes for patients. This situation has not improved over time. The unendorsed care may contribute to the high costs of managing LBP, and some aspects of the care provided carry a higher risk of adverse effects.”
This is quite alarming considering how many people present every year to their GP hoping to get some good advice. At our office we recommend procedures with the latest research and guidelines in mind. We can refer you to other specialists if need be. Call your San Francisco Chiropractor to find out about the most proven treatment for lower back pain
Source: Archives of Internal Medicine
Jack LaLanne was really ahead of his time and still is. After graduating from chiropractic school he started a gym in Oakland to focus on preventative care. Check out this great article at American Profile. If you have any questions about how exercise can be used for health and wellness call your San Francisco Chiropractor.
Wednesday is the Chiropractors black Friday. Thousands of people will visit chiropractic offices in San Francisco in the few days before black Friday as most offices in will be closed for the four day weekend including our office. Be careful when heading out for those deals on Friday, remember last year a shopper was crushed at Wal-Mart. If you are injured while shopping we are always available to you, give our answering service a call and let them know it’s urgent.
If you are looking for black Friday deals you can click here for the latest from Wal-Mart, Best Buy and Target.
Our local Golden State Warriors have hired a team chiropractor. More and more professional athletes are utilizing chiropractors for injury treatment, prevention and performance enhancement. If you are a weekend “warrior” give your San Francisco Chiropractor a call.
Source: USA Today
I think there is a big problem when the drugs you give out to help people kill more than illegal drugs. For the first time legal drug overdoses killed more people than heroin and cocaine. Don’t assume drugs given to you are safe just because a doctor prescribes them. This is another good reason to visit your local San Francisco chiropractor for back pain inste
ad of taking dangerous drugs.
The Wall Street Journal just printed a great article on how much overtreatment happens in the US. Most interesting to me was the paragraphs on back pain, but what also caught my was that American’s spend $1 billion on unnecessary antibiotics.
“For all the misery it causes, 80% to 90% of back pain resolves with only “conservative measures” (which include anti-inflammatory drugs, rest, heat, physical therapy and chiropractic treatments). “Sometimes it take days to weeks, sometimes it takes weeks to months, but pain lasts more than three months in only about 10% of cases,” says Michael J. Yaszemski, chief of orthopedic spine surgery at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn.”
“Whether to operate even in those remaining cases is controversial, he says. With acute lumbar disc herniation, studies have found that two and five years later, there’s little difference between patients who had surgery and those who did not. But surgery can sometimes provide relief faster.” I would add that surgery also comes with some possible severe side effects including death and blindness.
San Francisco is famous for the Folsom Street Fair. Whether you like it or not it’s one of the biggest festivals in California and the largest leather event in the world. I’m sure after many of the activities that go on there a lot of people are in need of a chiropractor. While you are there make sure to stop by chiropractor Dr. Steven Biegel’s booth and tell him I said hello. If on Monday you are still hurting call your San Francisco Chiropractor!
Source: Philadelphia Enquirer
Where does someone who has made $146,259,585 in career earnings go when he has a health challenge and needs to be back in action quickly? To the chiropractor, of course.
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