Tag Directory > Manipulative therapy
- Home
- >>
Tags
We have 16 results for Manipulative therapy.
1First New Mexico Medical Cannabis Producer Approved 1 Citation The New Mexico Department of Health has approved the first nonprofit in New Mexico to produce medical cannabis for patients in the Department?s Medical Cannabis Program. Nonprofits are allowed to produce up to 95 mature plants and seedlings as well as a usable inventory of medical cannabis to meet the needs of patients in the program. ?We are proud that we have accomplished the last and most challenging phase of our program and now New Mexico patients who are suffering from chronic, debilitati, technorati.com
|
Collaborative Care Helps Ease Chronic Pain 1 Citation Successful intervention included doctor training, patient education and feedback A team effort may be a better approach to helping people battle chronic pain, new research suggests. In a study including more than 400 U.S. veterans, researchers found that a collaborative strategy for chronic pain management ? one that included education for patients in pain and their primary care doctors, as well as frequent reevaluation of how the pain plan was working ? provided better relief of pain compa, technorati.com
|
Scientists Find Link Between Vertigo And Osteoporosis 1 Citation Scientists in Korea found that people with osteoporosis, a disease that lowers bone density and increases risk of fracture, are also more likely to have vertigo, a dizziness disorder caused by problems in the inner ear. The study was the work of Dr Ji Soo Kim, of Seoul National University College of Medicine in Korea, and colleagues, and is published in the 24 March issue of the journal Neurology. For the study, Kim and colleagues examined 209 people with benign positional vertigo (BPV) for, technorati.com
|
Millions of Americans With Chronic Ills Put Off Health Care 1 Citation Millions of Americans suffering from at least one chronic health problem are putting off care, not taking needed medications, and resigning themselves to feelings of isolation and depression. So reveals a new poll commissioned by the National Council on Aging, with support from The Atlantic Philanthropies and the California HealthCare Foundation. ?This report presents a distressing picture of the barriers facing those most in need of ongoing care and support, whether or not they have insura, technorati.com
|
Key Benefits of Spinal Manipulative Therapy 1 Citation Are you suffering from low back pain? A chiropractic doctor or physical therapist can relieve pain and promote healing by adjust your spine with specialized techniques. Spinal Manipulate Therapy is based on the manual manipulation of the spine to increase range of motion of the spinal column and reduce tension and stress in the surrounding muscle tissues. The treatment involves using massage techniques and applying different levels of pressure to the spine and surrounding tissues to twist, adjus, technorati.com
|
Pain Relief for Osteoporosis Patients With Fractures 1 Citation In osteoporosis patients with spinal fractures, vertebroplasty provides significant pain relief and helps decrease disability, according to a new study. Vertebroplasty involves injection of medical-grade bone cement into a fractured vertebra to shore up the fracture and provide pain relief. It?s used to treat painful vertebral compression fractures that don?t respond to conventional medical therapy with analgesics or narcotics. The study followed 884 patients for five years who were assessed, technorati.com
|
Gender Bias at Play in Treatment of Knee Osteoarthritis 1 Citation Women with knee pain are less likely than men to be recommended for total knee replacement surgery, says a Canadian study that suggests gender bias may be a factor. The University of Toronto study included a woman and a man with moderate knee osteoarthritis (OA) who reported the same pain symptoms and sought assessments from 67 doctors (38 family physicians and 29 orthopedic surgeons) in the province of Ontario. Overall, doctors were twice as likely to recommend total knee replacement surgery, technorati.com
|
Program Helps Improve Management Of Chronic Pain 1 Citation Patients with chronic pain who took part in a collaborative care intervention that included patient and clinician education and symptom monitoring and feedback to the primary care physician had improvements in pain-related disability and intensity, compared to usual care, according to a study in the March 25 issue of JAMA. Chronic noncancer pain is associated with considerable physical impairment, distress, depression and increased health care use and costs. Many primary care patients report c, technorati.com
|
Body Mass Index Does Not Improve When Practicing School-Based Physical Activity 1 Citation A new study in CMAJ reports that school-based physical activity has positive health effects on children, although it does not improve body mass index (BMI). Increasing rates in childhood obesity has become a public health issue. Obesity in children has more than tripled in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and across Europe since 1970, resulting in an increase in coronary artery disease, high blood pressure, diabetes, and other obesity-related diseases. Although many local govern, technorati.com
|
Guest Opinion Column - TheAlternativePress.com 1 Citation TheAlternativePress.com Guest Opinion Column TheAlternativePress.com, New Jersey This independent panel of experts determined the most effective treatment for acute low back pain is spinal manipulative therapy, or chiropractic adjustments, as opposed to bed rest, medication, physical therapy or over the counter medications. ..., technorati.com
|