Show Notes for September 29, 2017

Hello and welcome to this week’s edition of HealthBeat, Chiropractic OnLine Today’s Health, News and Informational Podcast.

In this week’s news:  We’ll Be Looking At –

• American Chiropractic Association Adopts Low Back Pain Treatment Guidelines
• And Finally, a Story about Feeling Stiff in the Back

For HealthBeat …. This is Dr. Todd Eglow!

Welcome to HealthBeat Podcast #607 recorded September 29, 2017.

HealthBeat is Chiropractic OnLine Today’s radio program, providing current news and commentary about Chiropractic and Health.

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And Now for some news ….

 

 

American Chiropractic Association Adopts Low Back Pain Treatment Guidelines

The American Chiropractic Association (ACA), during its annual House of Delegates meeting March 17, approved a resolution to adopt clinical practice guidelines for the treatment of low back pain from the American College of Physicians (ACP) and the Council on Chiropractic Guidelines and Practice Parameters (CCGPP).

The association seeks to direct its members, payers and policy makers toward shared interpretations of current evidence-based best practices.

The ACP guideline, “Noninvasive Treatments for Acute, Subacute and Chronic Low Back Pain: A Clinical Practice Guideline from the American College of Physicians,” was published Feb. 14 in the Annals of Internal Medicine.

The guideline recommends first using non-invasive, non-drug treatments before turning to drug therapies for both acute and chronic low back pain, and further advises that opioids be used only as a last resort.

In conjunction with the ACP guideline, ACA encourages the use of “Clinical Practice Guideline: Chiropractic Care for Low Back Pain,” which are chiropractic-specific guidelines from CCGPP that offer guidance in the management or co-management of low-back pain patients within a chiropractic office.

According to a 2016 Gallup survey, more than 35 million people visit a chiropractor annually.

Surf to our Show Notes for the full Press Release – http://www.acatoday.org/News-Publications-News-News-Releases-ACA-Adopts-Low-Back-Pain-Treatment-Guidelines

 

 

Feeling Stiff in the Back

Research from a study published in the Nature.com Scientific Reports, interrogates the long-held question of what informs our subjective experiences of bodily state.

The authors of this study propose a new hypothesis: feelings of back stiffness are a protective perceptual construct, rather than reflecting biomechanical properties of the back.

This has far-reaching implications for treatment of pain/stiffness but also for our understanding of bodily feelings.

Over three experiments, the authors challenge the prevailing view by showing that feeling stiff does not relate to objective spinal measures of stiffness and objective back stiffness does not differ between those who report feeling stiff and those who do not.

Rather, those who report feeling stiff exhibit self-protective responses: they significantly overestimate force applied to their spine, yet are better at detecting changes in this force than those who do not report feeling stiff.

This perceptual error can be manipulated: providing auditory input in synchrony to forces applied to the spine modulates prediction accuracy in both groups, without altering actual stiffness, demonstrating that feeling stiff is a multisensory perceptual inference consistent with protection.

Together, this presents a compelling argument against the prevailing view that feeling stiff is an isomorphic marker of the biomechanical characteristics of the back.

Surf to our Show Notes for the full Study – https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-09429-1.epdf

 

 

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– Albert Einstein

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Show Notes for September 15, 2017

Hello and welcome to this week’s edition of HealthBeat, Chiropractic OnLine Today’s Health, News and Informational Podcast.

In this week’s news:  We’ll Be Looking At –

• Recurrences of Low Back Pain After Chiropractic Treatment
• And Finally, a Story about Differences in Lumbar Spine and Lower Extremity in People with and without LBP

For HealthBeat …. This is Dr. Todd Eglow!

Welcome to HealthBeat Podcast #606 recorded September 15, 2017.

HealthBeat is Chiropractic OnLine Today’s radio program, providing current news and commentary about Chiropractic and Health.

You can download this week’s Podcast here – http://www.chiropracticradio.com/healthbeat/healthbeat0606.mp3

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And Now for some news ….

 

 

Recurrences of Low Back Pain After Chiropractic Treatment

The purpose of a study published in the Journal of Manipulative Physiological Therapeutics, was to investigate recurrence rate and prognostic factors in a large population of patients with low back pain (LBP) up to 1 year after chiropractic care using standardized definitions.

In Switzerland, 722 patients with LBP completed the Numeric Rating Scale for pain (NRS) and the Oswestry Disability Index (ODI) before treatment and 1, 3, 6, and 12 months later (ODI up to 3 months).

Based on NRS values, patients were categorized as “fast recovery,” “slow recovery,” “recurrent,” “chronic,” and “others.” In multivariable logistic regression models, age, sex, work status, duration of complaint (subacute: ≥14 days to less than 3 months; chronic: ≥3 months), previous episodes, baseline NRS, and baseline ODI were investigated as predictors.

The study concluded that recurrence rate was low in this LBP patient population. The duration of complaint before treatment was the main predictor for recurrence. The fact that even subacute duration significantly increased the odds for an unfavorable course of LBP is of clinical relevance.

Surf to our Show Notes for Links – https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28822475

 

 

Differences in Lumbar Spine and Lower Extremity in People with and without LBP

When functional movements are impaired in people with low back pain, they may be a contributing factor to chronicity and recurrence.

The purpose of a recent study published in the journal Clinical Biomechanics, was to examine lumbar spine, pelvis, and lower extremity kinematics during a step down functional task between people with and without a history of low back pain.

Subjects with low back pain displayed less lumbar spine movement than controls across all three planes of movement. This group difference was most pronounced in the sagittal plane.

For the lower extremity, subjects with low back pain displayed more frontal and axial plane knee movement than controls. There were no significant differences in kinematics among movement-based low back pain subgroups.

The study concluded that people with low back pain displayed less lumbar region movement in the sagittal plane and more off-plane knee movements than the control group during a step down task.

Clinicians can use this information when assessing lumbar spine and lower extremity movement during functional tasks, with the goal of developing movement-based interventions.

Surf to our Show Notes for Links – http://www.clinbiomech.com/article/S0268-0033(17)30124-9/abstract

 

 

 

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Thank you for listening…. As always, We Want to hear from you.  Please send us emails…. Simply surf to our Web Site at ChiropracticRadio.com and click on the Email link.

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Finally, I leave you with the following quote:

“The Only Limit To Our Realization Of Tomorrow Will Be Our Doubts Of Today.”- Franklin D. Roosevelt

For Chiropractic OnLine Today’s HealthBeat, This has been
Dr. Todd Eglow.

Show Notes for September 8, 2017

Hello and welcome to this week’s edition of HealthBeat, Chiropractic OnLine Today’s Health, News and Informational Podcast.

In this week’s news:  We’ll Be Looking At –

• SMT and Mechanism of Back Pain Relief
• And Finally, a story about Seated Lumbar Extension Postures and Sitting

For HealthBeat …. This is Dr. Todd Eglow!

Welcome to HealthBeat Podcast #605 recorded September 8, 2017.

HealthBeat is Chiropractic OnLine Today’s radio program, providing current news and commentary about Chiropractic and Health.

You can download this week’s Podcast here – http://www.chiropracticradio.com/healthbeat/healthbeat0605.mp3

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This week’s Episode is sponsored by Audible Books.  Please surf to our web site at www.ChiropracticRadio.com and click on the DaVinci link for your Health and Nutritional needs.

We also would appreciate your passing the word of our Podcasts to your friends and colleagues.  Please let everyone know how easy it is to subscribe via the Apple iTunes directory.

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Next, we would like to send out a big Thank You to those of you who are linking our Podcast to your home pages…. We do request that you also include a link to our main Podcast Page at www.ChiropracticRadio.com

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Finally, Chiropractic OnLine Today has always provided our news and education content for free and plan on continuing this policy.  However, we do request that if you are enjoying these podcasts, that you surf to ChiropracticRadio.com and consider clicking on our PayPal link to make a donation to keep these Podcasts airing.  We thank everyone for their continued support.

And Now for some news ….

 

 

 

SMT and Mechanism of Back Pain Relief

The aim of the recent study published in the journal Neuroscience, was to determine whether thoracic spinal manipulation (SM) decreases temporal summation of back pain.

The study comprised 2 controlled experiments including 16 and 15 healthy participants, respectively.

Each study included 6 sessions during which painful or non-painful electrical stimulations were delivered in three conditions:

• control
• light mechanical stimulus (MS) or
• spinal manipulation.

Electrical stimulation was applied on the thoracic spine (T4), in the area where SM and MS were performed.

The study concluded that these results indicate that spinal manipulation produces specific inhibitory effects on temporal summation of back pain, consistent with the involvement of a spinal anti-nociceptive mechanism in clinical pain relief by spinal manipulation.

This provides the first mechanistic evidence of back pain relief by spinal manipulation.

Surf to our Show Notes for Links – https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28288900

 

 

Seated Lumbar Extension Postures and Sitting

Prolonged sitting during sedentary work has been reported as a potential risk factor for low back pain. Furthermore, prolonged sitting can result in both reduced spinal height (SH) and lumbar range of motion (LROM).

A recent study published in the journal Ergonomics, compared the effects of no intervention (control) with two recovery postures on spinal height and lumbar range of motion (flexion and extension) during prolonged sitting.

Twenty-four participants were randomly assigned to three interventions for three consecutive days. The interventions comprised two seated lumbar extension recovery postures (unsupported sustained and supported dynamic lumbar extension postures) and a control.

Both interventions facilitated a relatively short recovery period for both spinal height and LROM. Supported dynamic lumbar extension conditions significantly helped spinal height recovery, as compared with control condition, after the first recovery posture intervention, and both postures have potential to maintain LROM.

However, both postures failed to induce spinal height recovery over an extended time.

The study’s summary stated that unsupported sustained lumbar extension and supported dynamic lumbar extension postures may serve as effective and practical methods for reducing rate of spinal height loss and maintaining LROM.

However, these postures should be further examined in various ‘doses’ to define optimal protocol for effectively minimizing spinal height loss over time.

Surf to our Show Notes for Links – http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00140139.2015.1052570?journalCode=terg20

 

 

 

This podcast is made available through the generous donations from our great Listeners, such as You!  If you are enjoying these HealthBeat Podcasts, Please surf to our Web Site and click on the PayPal link.

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As always, please surf to our Podcast Show Notes at ChiropracticRadio.com for a full listing of web references mentioned in today’s show.

And remember – COT’s Healthbeat always recommends discussing any nutritional or exercise lifestyle modifications with a qualified healthcare professional.

 

Thank you for listening…. As always, We Want to hear from you.  Please send us emails…. Simply surf to our Web Site at ChiropracticRadio.com and click on the Email link.

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If you have an idea for a future Health Segment, please feel free to contact me directly via email …. The address is: healthbeat@chiropracticradio.com

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If you have a Web Site for your practice and you would like to add content to help attract more patients, please consider adding a Personalized HealthBeat segments to your site. Many listeners are finding this a useful content addition to an Office’s Web Site.  For more information, please send me an Email at healthbeat@chiropracticradio.com

While at our Web Site, please remember to consider making a donation to help keep these Podcasts airing.  Listener support such as yours, via our PayPal link, does help in allowing us to bring these Podcasts to you weekly.

And please remember to support our sponsors by clicking their links located at ChiropracticRadio.com

Finally, I leave you with the following quote:

“The Man Who Has Confidence In Himself Gains The Confidence Of Others.”- Hasidic Proverb

For Chiropractic OnLine Today’s HealthBeat, This has been
Dr. Todd Eglow.