Arthritis pain affects millions of Americans every day. While medication, physical therapy and even surgery are common forms of treatment, laser therapy is emerging as an alternative treatment that is making an impact. ChiroEco.com explores how laser therapy works and what types of joint pain it can treat, plus what sufferers and clinicians can look forward to in terms of future treatments.
As patients today are experiencing more inflammatory processes due to stress, diet, lifestyle and other triggers, more chiropractic physicians are turning to instrument-assisted soft tissue mobilization to help treat chronic myofascial pain.
Chiropractors can play an important role in employee health, according to a new position paper by the nonprofit Foundation for Chiropractic Congress.
Back pain and other neuromuscular conditions are common in today's deskbound and smartphone-centric workplaces, but case studies presented in the paper demonstrate the value of having chiropractors working side by side with medical doctors at corporate health clinics, both in decreasing health care costs and improving patient satisfaction.
Chiropractic care such as adjustment offers a drug-free and non-invasive option for the care of common work-associated conditions like lower back pain. According to the paper, chiropractic care helped reduce the costs of radiology, outpatient, emergency and physical therapy services; improved neuromuscular function; demonstrated more improvement and higher satisfaction when compared to family medicine; had better outcomes, fewer surgeries and less opiod use.
Corporate health clinics are expected to grow at a rate of 15 to 20 percent per year, according to the paper.
How do you walk? How do you run? Thanks to a subsystem of the body known as the posterior oblique subsystem, we are allowed to do the basic functions that are taken for granted. When these muscles are imbalanced, that’s when movement suffers. Treatment techniques, including laser therapy and soft-tissue mobilization, can bring movement back. Perry Nickelston, DC, FMS, SFMA, Dynamic Chiropractic, offers practical advice on how to reset the posterior oblique movement chain.
