This is a short video from the Illinois Chiropractic Society on the benefits of chiropractic care over opioids.
Friday, March 18, 2022
Thursday, January 20, 2022
Signs Point to Greater Access to Chiropractic for Service Members, Civilian Beneficiaries
The Department of Defense has conducted several demonstration projects designed to examine the cost and feasibility of chiropractic healthcare services for its beneficiaries. The results of these projects have concluded that it is feasible to implement chiropractic services as part of the military health care benefit, and the resulting patient satisfaction is higher than that seen with traditional medical care.
Signs Point to Greater Access to Chiropractic for Service Members, Civilian Beneficiaries
Monday, September 13, 2021
Chiropractic Health Care month in Illinois
October, 2021 has been designated as Chiropractic Health Care Month in Illinois. Every year two million Illinois residents visit chiropractic practices.
Saturday, June 5, 2021
LEGISLATION PASSED ADDING CHIROPRACTIC TO MEDICAID
Illinois coverage for chiropractic care was discontinued eight years ago. Recently a bill containing a provision to re-instate chiropractic coverage to Illinois the Illinois Medicaid program as been passed and is expected to be signed by the governor. A plan will now be formulated by the Health and Family Services to be sent for federal approval.
LEGISLATION PASSED ADDING CHIROPRACTIC TO MEDICAID
Tuesday, June 1, 2021
Spinal Manipulative Therapy Far Safer than Opioids for Chronic Low Back Pain
New study from the April edition of the prestigious Spine Journal finds spinal manipulation (adjustments) significantly safer than opioids for treating chronic low back pain. Patients who received spinal manipulation first were 42 times less likely to experience an adverse drug reaction than patients who were first prescribed opioid drugs.
Friday, April 16, 2021
Muscle Relaxants vs. Manipulations for LBP
Newer better studies show that relaxant drugs have no good evidence of effectiveness for low back pain, while having possible significant
adverse effects especially for people operating machinery. Multiple clinical trials have found that skeletal muscle relaxants are associated with 50 percent more total adverse events and 104 percent more central nervous system adverse events than placebo.
A recent randomized controlled trial showed that spinal manipulation as commonly practiced by doctors of chiropractic had significantly more effect on pain reduction that muscle relaxants or placebo.
Muscle Relaxants vs. Manipulations for LBP
Monday, February 8, 2021
Can Over exercising be detrimental
Of course too much of just about anything can be detrimental, but the threshold for exercise on heart disease seems to be very high. A recently published 5 year study on 90,000 healthy individuals that used accelerometers to measure physical activity found that there was no maximal amount of exercise that increased risk for heart attack or heart disease.