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Chiropractic is a great way to help with pregnancy back issues.   Go to our Pregnancy page for more general information about pregnancy and chiropractic. Here are 2 recent studies reviewing chiropractic and pregnancy. 70% improvement at 1 month, 85% at 3 months for pregnant patients with chiropractic care. from 1 study. Chiropractic and obstetric management reduced pain level from ave 5.8 to a 2.9.  The group that received only standard obstetric care demonstrated no significant improvements.  from another. Outcomes of pregnant patients with low back pain undergoing chiropractic treatment: a prospective cohort study with short term, medium term and 1 year follow-up Peterson CK, et al. Outcomes of pregnant patients with low back pain… Read More

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Chronic Low Back pain cost more than most think.  There is time off work and loss of productivity along with the cost of medical care.  This research study shows more pain free and disability free days than with Chiropractic and that it did not increase in the cost, with a minor decrease in cost, though not significantly relevant.   With Chiropractic patients had  an increase of 22.9 pain-free days and 19.8 disability-free days  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24928639 J Manipulative Physiol Ther. 2014 Jun;37(5):300-11. doi: 10.1016/j.jmpt.2014.03.002. Abstract OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this analysis is to report the incremental costs and benefits of different doses of spinal manipulative therapy (SMT) in patients with chronic low back pain (LBP). METHODS:… Read More

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At 3 months, 90.5% of patients were “improved” with 88.0% “improved” at 1 year. Although acute patients improved faster by 3 months, 81.8% of chronic patients reported “improvement” with 89.2% “improved” at 1 year. Outcomes of Acute and Chronic Patients With Magnetic Resonance Imaging–Confirmed Symptomatic Lumbar Disc Herniations Receiving High-Velocity, Low-Amplitude, Spinal Manipulative Therapy: A Prospective Observational Cohort Study With One-Year Follow-Up NRS is a rating scale 0 being no pain, 10 being excruciating pain.  On Ave started at a 5.6 and ended with a 1.4.  5.6 is moderate pain.  1.4 would be minimal pain.   Table 2. Baseline and Outcome Data for All Patients at the Various Time Points Baseline… Read More

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Study from The Spine Journal shows chiropractic treatment gives better movement over exercise Chronic low back pain is a complicated subject.  Chiropractic has already been shown in studies to help with the pain.  This study is showing that chiropractic helps with the movement pattern.  More and more research is showing that the difficulty with chronic low back pain is that the muscular firing pattern is not normal. I am a big proponent of both chiropractic adjustments and exercise.  The chiropractic adjustments seem to help with the muscular firing pattern.  Doing exercises directly after that can help strengthen the muscles that were not firing  and help start to solidify the normal… Read More

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  Study shows 90% of low back disc herniations showed significant improvement with chiropractic spinal manipulation.  88% still show improvement after a year. Chiropractic is shown again and again to be effective for disc herniations and back pain, before going for a steroid shot or living on pain medication, and especially before going for surgery, consider trying chiropractic. Give us a call and we will gladly do a full examination and let you know if we believe you would benefit from chiropractic care. Outcomes of Acute and Chronic Patients With Magnetic Resonance Imaging-Confirmed Symptomatic Lumbar Disc Herniations Receiving High-Velocity, Low-Amplitude, Spinal Manipulative Therapy: A Prospective Observational Cohort Study With One-Year… Read More

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