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Organizations from the American Chiropractic Association to the American Medical Association and everyone in between have declared 2000-2010 United States Bone and Joint Decade. This is a 10-year multi-disciplinary initative to research the impact of muscle and joint disorders on society. So, I am exploring my usual websites today and I come across this little gem of a report. In this report the authors conclude that spinal manipulation, massage, joint mobilization, exercise and low level laser therapy among other therapies are some of the best forms of treatment for managing most common types of neck pain. The authors report that most types of neck pain fall into the categories of "neck pain with little to no interference with daily activities or neck pain that limits daily activities." The next two categories comprise neck pain with radiculopathy and neck pain with serious pathology. Chiropractors can treat neck pain with radiculopathy with a certain amount of caution but neck pain with serious pathology is out of our scope of practice and should be immediately referred out for medical management.
The authors also looked into the link between chiropractic manipulation of the neck and stroke and found that patients who visit a chiropractor are "no more likely to experience a stroke than are patients who visit there family physician." This is significant because this is something that the chiropractic profession has been studying and promoting for years and now it has been verified through a multi-disciplinary study.
One thing that I can take from this study it one thing that I have known since before I went to chiropractic school, chiropractic care is effective for many types of joint and muscle pain and that chiropractors can be a intergral part of a patient's health care team.
Take care,
Dr. B
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