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. 

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

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.

 Foundation for Chiropractic ProgressApplaudsSpineStudy Showing Spinal Manipulative Therapy FarSafer than Opioids for Chronic Low Back Pain

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

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.

Can You Exercise Too Much?

Stable Plaques: Why Exercisers Have Fewer Heart Attacks?

 New research is showing one of the reasons people who exercise, especially more vigorously, are less prone to heart attacks. They tend to form more stable plaques in their arteries which are less likely to break off and block an artery. If you have been told you have plaques in your arteries from a coronary calcium test, it is important to have them differentiate what type of plaques are present.

Stable Plaques: Why Exercisers Have Fewer Heart Attacks?

Competitive Health Insurance Reform Act

 Great news for patients and providers!

H.R. 1418, bipartisan legislation repeals the McCarran-Ferguson Act, passed in 1945, which allowed most health insurance companies to operate outside of federal antitrust laws established by the Sherman Act. Health insurers will now be subject to the same laws that other businesses are required to comply with and that prohibit unfair practices such as price fixing, price gouging, collusion and market allocations that hurt consumers.

ACA Applauds Signing of Competitive Health Insurance Reform Act