Protect your skin year-round
As summer carries on into fall, people are still getting outside and it’s a good time to remind ourselves about skin cancer and prevention. According to the National Institute of Health’s National Cancer Institute...
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Highlights from the Pain Management Best Practices Inter-Agency Task Force Report
September is Pain Awareness Month in the United States. The CHP Group will be sharing tools and resources this month related to pain awareness and pain management from the International Association for the Study...
Highlights of Complementary Healthcare Approaches to Osteoarthritis
Osteoarthritis is the most common type of arthritis and most commonly occurs in the hands, knees, hips, and spine. According to the National Institutes of Health’s National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH),...
Laughter is medicine
A recent article from Journal of American Medical Association (JAMA) titled, Laughter Leaves Me Lighter, provides some evidence for the benefits of laughter in coping with stress such as COVID-19 as well as some...
Chiropractic Care for Older Adults Reduces Medical Spending for Spine Conditions
The American Journal of Managed Care published an August 1, 2019 retrospective cohort study of a combination of national data of the conventional medical system for Medicare. The combined data illustrate 84,679 older adults...
Low Back Pain: Accuracy of Red Flags in Diagnosing Serious Pathology
A systematic search by MEDLINE, PUBMED, EMBASE, Cochrane Library, and SCO-PUS from inception to January 2019 produced interesting results in patients presenting to emergency departments for low back pain (LBP). All together 41,320 patients...
Scoliosis & Massage Therapy
A November 15, 2019 article in ‘Scolio Smart Clinics’ by Clayton Stitzel DC, describes benefits of massage therapy for treatment of scoliosis. Benefits from massage include temporary pain relief, heightened body awareness (which may...
National Institutes of Health Alerts & Advisories
Want to keep up with notices from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and others? The National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH) publishes regular updates and notices from...
Does this patient have osteoarthritis of the hip?
An article in the December 17, 2019 Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), highlighted the outcome of a systematic review designed to look at a rational clinical examination to identify the presence of a...