Steroid Injections May Not Be Helpful for Spinal Stenosis Pain. If you suffer from spinal stenosis, you may want to consider conservative chiropractic care to manage your symptoms instead of a steroid injection. A new study concludes that spinal stenosis patients are unlikely to get relief from steroid shots. Spinal stenosis is a condition that narrows the open space in the spinal canal resulting in low back and leg pain. Researchers found that six weeks after an injection, there was no difference in symptoms compared to the placebo group. Study author Dr. Janna Friedly adds, These steroid injections arent helpful. There is no added benefit to the steroid itself, so if people are considering these injections, I would recommend that they consider an alternative. New England Journal of Medicine, July 2014 Chiropractic: Cost-Effective for the Management of Musculo-Skeletal Conditions. A systematic review utilizing data from 25 published studies compared the cost-effectiveness and/or cost-utility of manual therapy to alternative treatments for reducing pain. The review found an economic advantage for manual therapies relative to other treatments used in the management of musculoskeletal conditions. This finding indicates that some manual therapies -- such as spinal manipulation performed by a Chiropractor -- are more cost-effective than usual general practitioner care, spinal stabilization, advice to remain active, or brief pain management for improving low back and shoulder pain/disability. Chiropractic manipulation was also found to be less costly and more effective to treat neck pain than either physiotherapy or general practitioner care. Journal of Manipulative Physiological Therapeutics, June 2014 Spinal Fusion Surgery Largely a Failure. Researchers reviewed 1,450 records of patients with low back pain from diagnosed degenerated discs, disc herniation or sciatica (pinched nerve pain, and tingling, numbness, weakness). Half got fusion surgery, the other half refused tjhe offer. After two years only 20% of surgery cases had returned to work. Thats compared to 67% that did not! Second Opinion, Vol. XXIV, No. 10 What If Chiropractic Fails? Although I have saved many a patient from surgery, no one helps everyone all the time. For those, I recommend the American Academy of Ozonetherapy. Learn more at aaot.us.
Posted on: Mon, 13 Oct 2014 22:17:08 +0000
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