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European Guidelines for the Management of Acute and Chronic Nonspecific Low Back Pain in Primary Care

By Frank M. Painter|June 25, 2010|Guidelines, Low Back Pain, News, Unnecessary Surgery|

European Guidelines for the Management of Acute and Chronic Nonspecific Low Back Pain in Primary Care

You will enjoy these recent European evidence-based guidelines for the management of acute and chronic low back pain.

Both the Acute Back Pain Guideline and the
Chronic Back Pain Guideline recommend spinal manipulation
as an effective conservative treatment.

Interestingly, MOST of what’s considered “standard medical treatment” are listed as
Invasive treatments, that should NOT be recommended for non-specific CLBP.

Non-recommended medical treatments include:

Bed rest,

Acupuncture,

intradiscal injections,

epidural corticosteroid injections,

intra-articular (facet) steroid injections,

local facet nerve blocks,

trigger point injections,

prolotherapy,

botulinum toxin,

radiofrequency facet denervation,

intradiscal radiofrequency lesioning,

intradiscal electrothermal therapy,

radiofrequency lesioning of the dorsal root ganglion,

and spinal cord stimulation

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What Is the Chiropractic Summit?

By Frank M. Painter|June 22, 2010|News|

What Is the Chiropractic Summit?

The Chiro.Org Blog

The Chiropractic Summit was created in September 2007 in recognition of the profession’s desire for unity. The first Summit meeting, held in Washington, D.C., was comprised of 13 organizations; three years later, the Summit has 41 members, representing leadership from education, research, regulatory bodies, political action, practice management, chiropractic media and national associations. Within the Summit, there are four key committees: Communications, Documentation, Finance, and Government Relations.

The Group has since released a white paper titled:

“The Path To Change in the US Healthcare System: The Chiropractic Perspective”.

The Executive Summary states: (more…)

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Spine Task Force Neck Pain Evidence Summary

By Frank M. Painter|June 19, 2010|Guidelines, News|

Spine Task Force Neck Pain Evidence Summary

The Chiro.Org Blog

Toronto, June 18, 2010 – A new neck pain guide offers a concise summary on both helpful and unhelpful approaches to treating Neck Pain, based on the evidence synthesis completed by the Bone and Joint Decade 2000-2010 Task Force on Neck Pain. IWH worked with the Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College, the Ontario Chiropractic Association and some members of the task force’s executive committee to prepare the summary.

In February 2008, Spine published a special edition dedicated to the task force’s reviews on the prevention, prognosis, diagnosis and management of neck pain. After publication, a network of Canadian chiropractic opinion leaders, coordinated by IWH, suggested distilling the evidence into a summary. “It’s exciting to see the chiropractic community take up the work of the task force this way,” says Dr. Sheilah Hogg-Johnson, a task force member and IWH senior scientist. “The Neck Pain Evidence Summary provides a way for health-care professionals to review the evidence easily in their practice, and if they need further information, they can refer to the full research papers.”The task force recommends treatments or further assessments, based on the severity of neck pain. They classified severity into four grades. In the Evidence Summary, a chart outlines the signs and symptoms, and further assessments for each grade. Then both helpful and unhelpful treatments are presented by grade and type of injury. (more…)

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Cost-Effectiveness Revisited

By Frank M. Painter|June 14, 2010|Low Back Pain, Neck Pain, News|

Cost-Effectiveness Revisited

The Chiro.Org Blog

SOURCE: The Chiropractic Report

David Chapman-Smith, LL.B (Hons)

As the United States faces the prospect of major reform to its healthcare system a dramatic new expert study from leading US health economists from Mercer Health and Benefits, and Harvard University analyses chiropractic management of back and neck pain and reports:

“Almost half of US patients with persistent back pain” seek chiropractic care.
“Low-back and neck pain are extremely common conditions that consume large amounts of healthcare resources”.
“Effectiveness: chiropractic care is more effective than other modalities for treating low-back and neck pain”.
“Cost-effectiveness: when considering effectiveness and cost together, chiropractic physician care for low-back and neck pain is highly cost-effective, and represents a good value in comparison to medical physician care and to widely accepted cost-effectiveness thresholds”. (more…)

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Chiropractic Insights — Right From the Brigadier General

By Frank M. Painter|June 10, 2010|News|

Source: Dynamic Chiropractic

Retired Brigadier General Rebecca Halstead was interviewed several times this past Memorial Day. During one interview, she commented on a recent Johns Hopkins study that revealed musculoskeletal and connective-tissue injuries, not combat injuries, are the top reasons for medical evacuations from Iraq. Halstead then shared the following:

“Think about the conditions that our soldiers are living and performing in. I just recently visited the Connecticut VA center, and I was speaking to a young sergeant who had redeployed from Iraq … He spent two years getting physical therapy for a herniated disc, and finally he was able to get to a chiropractor within the VA system, and I happened to be at the VA center the day he was being helped [by the chiropractor], and he said, ‘Ma’am, think about it; if when we came in off our patrols – if we could see a chiropractor down range, can you imagine how much better we would feel on a daily basis?'” (more…)

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Researching the Subluxation Complex

By Frank M. Painter|June 6, 2010|Education, News, Subluxation|

Researching the Subluxation Complex

The Chiro.Org Blog

This paper published in the March 2010 issue of Chiropractic Journal of Australia, by the esteemed researcher Heidi Haavik Taylor, BSc (Chiro), PhD reviews the neurologic research of the last 15 years to help explain the “Neuromodulatory Effects of the Vertebral Subluxation and Chiropractic Care“.

We are grateful to the Editor Editor Rolf E. Peters, DC, MCSc, FICC, FACC for permission to reproduce this full-text article exclusively on the Chiro.Org website!

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