May 2019 Healthy News: Concord, NC Chiropractic Benefits Chronic Pain (Without Opioids) & Athletes

Instead of opioids, Concord, NC chiropractic is valuable for chronic pain management and relief.

Chronic Pain: Opioids? Use Chiropractic Instead.

Concord, NC chronic pain is rampant. Concord, NC opioid use is epidemic. What is an effective option? Chiropractic with Pure Chiropractic. Why? Opioids were hailed as a pill answer for chronic pain…costs climbed, risks increased. Options and co-treatment approaches are called for. In a research investigation of 62,000 patients in 6 studies of chiropractic utilization and opioid prescribing, use of chiropractic care fluctuated from 11.3% to 51.3%. Patients who visited a chiropractor for their musculoskeletal pain issue were 49% less likely to get a prescription for an opioid than those who went to other healthcare providers. (1) Patients using on-going chiropractic care to cope with their chronic low-back and neck pain voiced to researchers that their pain would be more without such chiropractic care. Further, they are willing to pay for care to keep their mild pain levels. The “willingness to pay” cost varies from $37.32 to $45.98. (2) Concord, NC chiropractic patients at Pure Chiropractic value their chiropractic care! Concord, NC chiropractic services benefit chronic pain along with or without opioids.

Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Vincent Pankonin on The Back Doctor’s Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson about how chronic back pain treatment without opioids using the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management permitted a patient to “forget” to come see him for a year as his pain was absent!

Pure Chiropractic offers spinal manipulation to athletes of all types – recreational and professional – to enhance their efforts.

Concord, NC CHIROPRACTIC TIP OF THE MONTH: Spinal Manipulation Before Sports

Concord, NC athletes – recreational and professional – crave that edge when they do their activity. Spinal manipulation may be just that! Elite Taekwondo athletes felt improved muscle strength and corticospinal excitability to ankle plantar flexor muscles after just one spinal manipulation. The added force of the maximum voluntary contraction of the plantar flexors persisted for 30 minutes and the corticospinal excitability increase went on for not less than 60 minutes. (3) Virginia Tech football players – offensive and defensive - felt increased performances in two football seasons during which they obtained spinal manipulation treatments before games. (4) A new report said that a single pre-exercise SMT elicited a heightened shift toward parasympathetic (the part of the autonomic nervous system responsible for regulating the body's unconscious actions) dominance and marginally diminished performance in recreational healthy athletes. (5) Time to try spinal manipulation for yourself! See if it boosts your edge. Let’s talk at your next Concord, NC chiropractic appointment.

CONTACT Pure Chiropractic

Make your Concord, NC chiropractic appointment. Pure Chiropractic is here to help you control your chronic pain without opioids and help you not to be a part of today’s opioid epidemic and help Concord, NC athletes increase their edge! Thank you for trusting your spine’s health to Pure Chiropractic!