Tuesday, July 23, 2019

Arthritis Patients Turn to Chiropractic

Symptoms of arthritis include pain and limited function of your joints. Inflammation of the joints from arthritis is catarterized by joint stiffness, swelling, redness, and warmth. Tenderness of the inflamed join can be present. Loss of range of motion and deformity can also result. Certain forms of arthritis can also be associated with pain and inflammation of tendons surrounding your joints. 

Millions of people suffer daily with pain and disability form arthritis or its complications. Moreover, many of the forms of arthritis, because they are rheumatic disease, can cause symptoms affecting various organs of the body that do not directly involve the joints. 

Therefore, symptoms in some patients with certain forms of arthritis can also include fever, gland swelling, weight loss, fatigue, feeling unwell, and even symptoms from abnormalities of organs such as the lungs, heart or kidneys.

The Annals of Internal Medicine (of all places) published the results of a survey of 232 people who has arthritis and were under rheumatologist care. Of those responding to the survey 63% were using some form of "complementary car" as named by the study.

Of those people that responded, 31% were using chiropractic.

These numbers may themselves be grossly under reported as only 45% of the patients told their doctor about using the other forms of care. A lot of patients never tell their M.D./D.O. that they are using a Doctor of Chiropractic. 

These reported numbers translate to over 19% of the public who are seeing a rheumatologist and also a chiropractor act the same time. 

Possibly the most impressive statistic was that 73% of those trying chiropractic found it helpful. The reason given why people said they tried the non-medical care was to 'control pain', because they "hears it helps", "because it is safe", "because it helped someone they know", and "because their prescription medication wasn't working".

Chiropractic care is great for PAIN CONTROL, but don't forget... it helps every cell tissue, and organ in your body. 

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