Purdue Pharma, the maker of OxyContin, settled litigation with the federal government in 2007 for “misbranding” OxyContin as less addictive than other narcotics and paid $637 million in fines. “Purdue Pharma accepted full responsibility for the actions some of its…
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The placebo effect in surgery
Testing medications, supplements, and some procedures against a placebo can be described as a gold standard test of the effectiveness of said medication, supplement, or procedure. I came across an article recently I thought was interesting because it both confirmed…
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Posted in Back Pain, Exercise and Fitness, Healthcare Policy and Politics, Neck Pain, Wellness
Posted in Back Pain, Exercise and Fitness, Healthcare Policy and Politics, Neck Pain, Wellness
Long Term Cost of a Spinal Fusion
Spinal fusion is a very common procedure today to treat spine and spine related pain and dysfunction. While the field of spinal surgery has come a long way and their advances have resulted in better long term outcomes, one thing…
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Posted in Back Pain, Exercise and Fitness, Neck Pain
Posted in Back Pain, Exercise and Fitness, Neck Pain
Spinal Manipulation Plus Exercise Better For Chronic Back Pain
Chronic back pain is a serious condition that many Americans suffer from today. Finding the right treatment that has long term benefits is difficult and in some cases impossible. Today a very common treatment for chronic back pain is giving…
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Spine Pain After Surgery
An estimated 15% to 61% of patients suffer from persistent or recurrent spine pain after surgery and up to two thirds of chronic spine pain patients seen at pain centers suffer from failed back surgery. With these numbers it is…
Maintenance Care
Have you ever heard of a chiropractor talk about “maintenance” care, or perhaps they used the term wellness care, any way its is called it may sound like some ploy to keep you as a chiropractic patient the rest of…
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Posted in Back Pain, Injury Prevention, Neck Pain, Wellness
Posted in Back Pain, Injury Prevention, Neck Pain, Wellness
An Introduction on Scoliosis
Scoliosis is a complex condition so this post is merely an introduction on scoliosis, you know only the basics. I will post more specific info on it in later posts because it really is a complex condition that cannot be…
Medicare Benefits From Chiropractic
A few months back I wrote a post on how Complimentary and Alternative Medicine can reduce health care costs if implemented more widely instead of suppressed. Insurance companies the state, local, and federal government have all been looking at suppressing…
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Posted in Healthcare Policy and Politics
Posted in Healthcare Policy and Politics
Spinal Manipulation IS Better Than Drug Therapy
Side posture spinal manipulation is better than drug therapy for acute low back pain. A recent article published in the journal Spine studied the effects of the type of lumbar adjustment we utilize every day and which our patients are…
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Posted in Back Pain
Failed Back Surgery
Patients who had spinal fusion surgery were less likely to return to work and needed more opiates, study says Recently a report published by NBC News highlighted the issue of failed back surgery. Experts estimate that nearly 600,000 Americans opt for…
Tagged with: Alternatives to Back Surgery, Back Fusion, Back Pain, Back Surgery, Chiropractic, Disc Degeneration, Disc Herniation, Failed Back Surgery, Geneva, Geneva Chiropractic, Geneva Chiropractor, Geneva IL, Low Back Pain, Sciatica, Spine Care, Spine Fusion, Staker Chiropractic, Stenosis
Posted in Back Pain
Posted in Back Pain