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Why Chiropractic Is Your Best Option for Pain

Pain is a major problem, but so is medication used to help relieve the pain. If you haven’t realized by now that chiropractic care, not drugs, is your best option for pain, perhaps you’ll be swayed by some recent research. Let’s take a quick look at two studies in particular. Follow along and see how […]

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Young People Love Chiropractic

Here’s one reason of many reasons why: Younger people (ages 10-24) who are experiencing spine pain improve with chiropractic care, suggests research. Pain scores, assessed through the Numeric Rating Scale, which asks patients to rate their pain from 0 (no pain) to 10 (unimaginable pain), decreased significantly following chiropractic management. Reduced pain scores were reported […]

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Wanted: An End to Back Pain

4 Ways to Prevent an All-Too-Common Condition By Kevin Wong, DC When was the last time you or someone you know suffered an episode of back pain? Chances are it wasn’t that long ago. It might have forced you to miss work, take painkillers, anti-inflammatories or other medication, or just deal with the pain longer […]

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A Pain in the Neck

By John Hanks, DC Far too often, people attribute neck pain to stress and take medication to mask the symptoms. Sound familiar? Fortunately, if you’re a chiropractic patient, you know there’s a better, safer way. My neck feels OK right now. I can turn my head left and right and down and back. (Well, that […]

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Beware of Pain Injections

Unfortunately, corticosteroid injections are a popular choice among medical providers for patients suffering from osteoarthritis, despite the availability and effectiveness of nondrug options. The problem with injections, according to new research: they may actually escalate the progression of OA and increase the likelihood that the patient will require joint replacement surgery at some point. Published […]

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