
HOPE FOR KNEE AND HIP OSTEOARTHRITIS:
Distraction and Patient Education and Exercise
Hip
and knee osteoarthritis are known
and growing concerns as our society gets older…around the world. Today, Canada is evaluating the “Good Life with Osteoarthritis
in Demark” (GLAD) system for knee and hip
osteoarthritis. The program combines manual therapy,
exercise and patient education. (1) One GLAD study had patients attend 2-3 patient education classes and 12
supervised exercise sessions over the course of 8 weeks, patients’
pain intensity got better by 26-33%, walking speed got better
by 8-12%, chair standability improved 18-30%,
and joint-related quality of life improved 12-26%. (2) (Another
study used MRI to determine the thickness of
knee joint cartilage after knee joint distraction
to document that it thickened with treatment bringing
about significant short- and long-term cartilage regeneration
up to 10 years post-treatment. (3) This was performed
with young people, but there is hope!) Back in 2017, a Canadian
chiropractor published a paper describing his treatment using Cox® flexion-distraction-principle-based
distraction to the osteoarthritic knee, and the success he has witnessed
in his patients. Inclusively (acute and chronic patients combined),
patients reported a mean visual analog scale score decrease
from 7.7 to 1.8 in 3 weeks and 5.3 treatments. Acute knee OA
patients’ scores reduced from 8.1 to 1.1 in 4.8
treatments in 2.4 weeks. Chronic patients’ scores dropped
from 7.5 to 2.2 in 3.3 weeks and 5.4 treatments. (4) Chiropractors like yours
at Moses Chiropractic are ahead of the curve with their modified Cox® Technic
principles-based-flexion-distraction-approach to knee osteoarthritis. New
protocols for use in hip OA are also in development. Let’s talk
today about how distraction treatment may help you with West Palm Beach
hip and knee osteoarthritis!
HOPE FOR DEGENERATED
DISCS: Chondroitin Sulfate
Back pain treatment
approaches from
surgery to manual therapy to exercise to nutrition abound while
back pain continues. Injecting hyaluronic acid hydrogel is demonstrating
some promise as it is shown to curb
the loss of disc height, stimulate tissue hydration for disc
repair, and reduce inflammation and innervation to ward
off more disc degeneration. (5) The nutritional approach continues
to hold hope for back pain sufferers as the disc matrix
components are identified, two key components
being chondroitin sulfate proteoglycan and hyaluronan. Making chondroitin sulfate
available to the disc plus controlling the
hydrostatic pressure of the disc is valuable.
(6) Cox® Technic is shown to drop intradiscal
pressure, so mixing it with chondroitin sulfate may be, too. Are
you including it in your daily supplements? You may want
to think about adding a disc supplement that
has chondroitin sulfate to your schedule after we
talk. Moses Chiropractic is ready!
Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. James Cox
on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael
Johnson as he discusses the
part chondroitin sulfate plays in the health,
degeneration and potential regeneration of the intervertebral disc
and in the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain
Management.
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Schedule your next West Palm Beach chiropractic appointment
with Moses Chiropractic. See you then!
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