Did you see what the North American Spinal Society said about chiropractic care. They rated it as on eof the best options if you have lower back issues. #healthy815 #palmerproud #icachiropractor
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Did you see what the North American Spinal Society said about chiropractic care. They rated it as on eof the best options if you have lower back issues. #healthy815 #palmerproud #icachiropractor
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- Hi there. Welcome to another edition of Ask the Chiropractor. On today's Ask the Chiropractor, we try to answer a question that a patient presented to us over the week or the month before. And we try to come out here and answer it for you. The goal is if you have a question about chiropractic, you should always ask a chiropractor, not somebody else who's only kind of an expert at chiropractic. So that's the goal of the podcast. And today we had a question about what is some of the research and literature talking about chiropractic and what about some of the spinal experts? How do they feel about chiropractic care? What's their opinions on it? Not so much how to do it but do they find that patients have success with it? And so what I was able to find was a article from the North America Spine Society. The North America Spinal Society says that they're a multidisciplinary facet that looks at the spine, looks at the research on the spine and they get together and they discuss the overall spine, the function of the spine, and different ailments of the spine. Now the first thing I thought was interesting when I looked into the multidisciplinary discipline, I looked at their board of directors and I would say 90% of them are MDs. And I would say none of them are chiropractors. So to me, I think it's multiple, multiple disciplinary. When they're talking about the spine I believe they miss an amazing group of people that might be able to send the board who are actually chiropractors and actually know quite a bit about the spine. And maybe having one of them on the board would be a good idea. But again, this is where I fall back into, you know if you have a question about chiropractic you should ask a chiropractor. But I'm not gonna harp on the North American Spine Society because I actually like what they have to say. The question became, what's the best treatment for an acute lower back issue? What's the best way to take care of acute lower back issue? And so when you go into PubMed, a lot of you have heard me talk about PubMed before. PubMed is where, if you put a piece of research out there, it has to go through massive amounts of scrutiny to make sure what you're talking about is actually legitimate, you know, verifiable, and there's no other variables going on. That whatever you publish is pretty much, they're not able to find any flaws in your documentation or your work. You hear me talk about this a lot in the office where I talk about if I had 12 plants and I give six of them water, six of them fake water, doing a double blind random control studies by the exact rules of a double blind random control study. And we found out that after a couple of weeks, all the water, all the plants died, then we know water's bad for plants. We did a double blind random control study. Well, I think of the PubMed, PubMed will kick me out because I had those plants in the basement with no sunlight and no water, though. I mean and no sunlight and no soil. The water had nothing to do with it. It was the fact that they were the deprived of everything else was why they died. So PubMed wouldn't have publish, wouldn't publish my paper. So it's interesting to look at PubMed to find their research and their data whatever they published, it's been definitely going to some severe scrutiny by peers and other people. So the North America Spinal Society and Multidisciplinary Discipline group, absent of chiropractors, publish a paper about the effective treatment for acute lower back pain, the most effective treatment for acute lower back pain. And chiropractic, what we do is chiropractors came up extremely high on their list. The spinal manipulation, they call it. We call it a chiropractic adjustment, was almost the number one preferred choice for lower back issues. They found people with lower back issues, who want to clear up and go away without other health issues or other things interfering with your lower back issues and other problems with your lower back. That by far the best choice, without a doubt, is spinal manipulative therapy or chiropractic adjustments. So it's really cool to hear that we're like one of the number one choices are from a whole group of people that's been PubMed indexed, PubMed researched. So when you have a doctor that says maybe chiropractic's not a great choice for your lower back pain I would tell you people who know a lot more about the subject would disagree with that doctor and that doctor is probably wrong that chiropractic would actually be a great choice. Now in the past I've talked a little bit about NSAID's non-steroidal anti-inflammatories, and since 2010 the research has showed us that those cause acute lower back pain. So when you take those chronically you actually develop acute lower back pain. So taking those chronically, it's a really, really bad idea. for acute lower back pain. They actually would deteriorate some of the nerve endings and the lower back pain becomes constant with overuse of those. So non-steroidal anti-inflammatories are not the best. You've heard other podcast talking about the cortisone shots and the shots they give in your spine. As far as I know, to this day, still, with the research, those are still not FDA approved for the spine and the manufacturers of such shots did not recommend those for spinal care. So when it comes to what's the best choice for your lower back pain, lower back issues, you know that keeps coming back, that a lot of things that are currently being done are not highly recommended. And the number one thing from the North America Spine Society that is recommended is chiropractic. So I think if you're having acute lower back pain and you don't know where to go I would say the chiropractors a great place to start. Again, we're using research and science on this to find out our answers. We're not just going by opinion or anything else. We're using the data and the science that's out there. So if you have any questions, look up PubMed, type in NASS, the North America Spine Society. I can pull it up right here. We'll take a quick look at it. I'll give you more information on it. It is, pulling up the PubMed article right here. And here you see the PubMed article. It is NASS Contemporary Concepts in Spine Care: Manipulative Therapy for Acute Lower Back Pain, Spine 2010 of October. It's all about how there's, out of doubts, spinal manipulative therapy, otherwise what we call comprehensive adjustments are a great choice, a great starting point, to help you rid you of your lower back pain. I hope I answered that question about what the experts think about chiropractic and lower back pain when you get into the experts. They for sure, for sure recommend chiropractic. Well, if you have a question about chiropractic or chiropractic care, go ahead and leave a message below. Contact us at our website at Rockford DC, r o c k f o r d d c.com and maybe next time we come on, we'll be answering your questions. Remember, if you have a question about chiropractic, always ask a chiropractor. If you have a question about your teeth, always ask a dentist. Go to the people who know. Thanks for listening, everybody. We'll talk to you next time.