October 2019 Healthy News: Vitamin C for Collagen and Chiropractic for Opioid Use Reduction

Pure Chiropractic provides chiropractic treatment as an option to opioids for back pain relief.

CHIROPRACTIC AND/OR PT CARE REDUCE OPIOID USE

The use of opioids is a much-debated topic these days. “Epidemic” is often linked to it. Efforts to curtail this epidemic are deliberated. One possibly effective way to do this is to urge low back pain sufferers to begin care with a conservative healthcare provider (instead of a primary care provider) like a chiropractor, physical therapist or acupuncturist. When this came about in a study of 216,504 US adults with a new low back pain episode, the early and long-term use of opioids was significantly reduced. (1) In an attempt to restrain opioid use after spine surgery, new prescribing limits have been initiated which seem to decrease the 30-day post-operative opioid use and not raise refills for prescriptions, emergency room visits, or unplanned hospital readmissions or reoperations for pain. (2) Another study points out that opioid use before spine surgery raised the time of opioid use after surgery and was related to poorer short-term and long-term outcomes for cervical spine fusion. (3) Since most general practitioners in France (57.3%) admitted not being confident in diagnosing and managing patients with lumbar spinal stenosis back pain - They asked for imaging (98.8%) and corticoid spinal injections (71.4%) and referred to another specialist (100%). – conservative care with practitioners like your Concord, NC chiropractor makes much sense. (4) Your Concord, NC chiropractor is confident in diagnosing and treating back pain of many types! Your Concord, NC chiropractor at Pure Chiropractic is pleased to offer care that contributes to resolving the issue of the opioid epidemic rather than contributing to it.

Listen to this podcast with Dr. George Joachim about the conservative care of Concord, NC back pain due to spinal stenosis with the Cox® Technic System on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he describes the path of care for a patient with lumbar spinal stenosis.

Concord, NC chiropractic shares tips on nutrition like vitamin C for boosting collagen production that decreases in musculoskeletal conditions.

Concord, NC CHIROPRATIC TIP OF THE MONTH:

VITAMIN C ENHANCES COLLAGEN PRODUCTION

With a goal of improving connective tissue, researchers are trying various nutritional interventions. Adding vitamin C enriched gelatin or hydrolyzed collagen supplementation an hour before exercise is found to potentially improve collagen synthesis. (5) An analysis of current literature on vitamin C efficacy stated that it has the potential to accelerate bone healing after a fracture, enhances type I collagen synthesis, and lessens oxidative stress in an antioxidative role…with no adverse effects! (6) When it comes to benefits for musculoskeletal issues, information like this on vitamin C excites your Concord, NC chiropractor!

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Schedule your Concord, NC chiropractic appointment today at Pure Chiropractic! Chiropractic care with conservative options like spinal manipulation and nutrition may clearly impact your painful musculoskeletal condition without opioids.