SMT and The Low Back & How Much Exercise Is Actually Needed

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CF 278: SMT and The Low Back & How Much Exercise Is Actually Needed

Today we’re going to talk about SMT and The Low Back & How Much Exercise Is Actually Needed

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You have found yourself smack dab in the middle of Episode 278 Now if you missed last week’s episode, we talked about the safety of SMT in the cervical spine and we talked about Chiropractors’ beliefs around the need for x-rays. That one was surprising given the fact that it’s now 2023. Make sure you don’t miss that info. Keep up with the class.

On the personal end of things…..

First thing’s first, yours truly voiced the Elvis character in a video game that just came out on Xbox and Playstation. It’s called God of Rock and the company that released it is called Modus. If you’re a gamer and you like fighting games, go google up god of rock by Modus and see what you think. The Elvis character is named King and yep, that’s my voice. Even the grunts and groans, the punches and the taking damage. All of it. Crazy. Life. I lead, folks. Just insane but blessed too. It’s warming up outside for most of us. At least here in the South it is. You Yankees feel free to correct me if you like. I can handle your ridicule. It got me to thinking, with it getting warmer outside now, how does that affect your marketing efforts? Here’s what I’m thinking; what do we do more of when it warms up/

• We do more yard work
• Runners run more
• Bikers bike more
• Hikers hike
• You’ve got Summer baseball, basketball, and whatnot.
• Some of you will have rowing, waterskiing, and watersports. Note – that wouldn’t be Amarillo, TX just in case you’re wondering.

The point being that your marketing might shift a bit to make sure you’re talking to the people that are out there putting their bodies under more stress than they have in the last 6 or so months. So, go do all of the stuff. Build it this Summer

Item #1 The first on today is called “Benefits and harms of spinal manipulative therapy for the treatment of chronic low back pain: systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials” by Sidney M Rubinstein, Annemarie de Zoete, Marienke van Middelkoop, Willem J J Assendelft, Michiel R de Boer, Maurits W van Tulder and published in PubMed on March 13 2019.

Why They Did It

To assess the benefits and harms of spinal manipulative therapy (SMT) for the treatment of chronic low back pain.

How They Did It

• Two reviewers independently selected studies, extracted data, and assessed risk of bias and quality of the evidence.
• The effect of SMT was compared with recommended therapies, non-recommended therapies, sham (placebo) SMT, and SMT as an adjuvant therapy.
• Main outcomes were pain and back specific functional status, examined as mean differences and standardized mean differences (SMD), respectively. Outcomes were examined at 1, 6, and 12 months. Quality of evidence was assessed using GRADE. A random effects model was used and statistical heterogeneity explored.

What They Found

• 47 randomised controlled trials including a total of 9211 participants were identified, who were on average middle aged (35-60 years).

• Most trials compared SMT with recommended therapies. Moderate quality evidence suggested that SMT has similar effects to other recommended therapies for short term pain relief (mean difference -3.17, 95% confidence interval -7.85 to 1.51) and a small, clinically better improvement in function (SMD -0.25, 95% confidence interval -0.41 to -0.09).

• High quality evidence suggested that compared with non-recommended therapies SMT results in small, not clinically better effects for short term pain relief (mean difference -7.48, -11.50 to -3.47) and small to moderate clinically better improvement in function (SMD -0.41, -0.67 to -0.15). In general, these results were similar for the intermediate and long term outcomes as were the effects of SMT as an adjuvant therapy.

• Evidence for sham SMT was low to very low quality; therefore these effects should be considered uncertain. Statistical heterogeneity could not be explained.

• About half of the studies examined adverse and serious adverse events, but in most of these it was unclear how and whether these events were registered systematically. Most of the observed adverse events were musculoskeletal related, transient in nature, and of mild to moderate severity.

• One study with a low risk of selection bias and powered to examine risk (n=183) found no increased risk of an adverse event (relative risk 1.24, 95% confidence interval 0.85 to 1.81) or duration of the event (1.13, 0.59 to 2.18) compared with sham SMT. In one study, the Data Safety Monitoring Board judged one serious adverse event to be possibly related to SMT.

Wrap It Up

SMT produces similar effects to recommended therapies for chronic low back pain, whereas SMT seems to be better than non-recommended interventions for improvement in function in the short term. Clinicians should inform their patients of the potential risks of adverse events associated with SMT. Before getting to the next one, Next thing, go to https://www.tecnobody.com/en/products That’s Tecnobody as in T-E-C-nobody. They literally have the most impressive clinical equipment I’ve ever seen. I own the ISO Free and am looking to add more to my office this year or next. The equipment you’re going to find over there can be marketed in your community like crazy because you’ll be the only one with something that damn cool in your office. When you decide you can’t live without those products, send me an email and I’ll give you the hookup. They will 100% differentiate your clinic from your competitors. I have to tell you, Dr. Chris Howson, the inventor of the Drop Release tool re-activated the code! Use the code HOTSTUFF upon purchase at droprelease.com & get $50 off your purchase. Would you like to spend 5-10 minutes doing pin and stretch and all of that? Or would you rather use a drop release to get the same or similar results in just a handful of seconds. I love it, my patients love it, and I know yours will too. droprelease.com and the discount code is HOTSTUFF. Go do it.

Item #2 Our last one this week is called, “How much exercise is needed to live longer” by Sara Berg, MS and published in American Medical Association on March 16, 2018.

Why They Did It To know many minutes of moderate or vigorous physical activity are needed to lower the risk of premature mortality.

How They Did It From two large prospective U.S. cohorts, 116,221 adults self-reported leisure-time physical activity—defined as exercise that is not done at work—through a validated questionnaire. The questionnaire was repeated up to 15 times over the course of 30 years.

What They Found

• The study found that those who worked out two to four times beyond the minimum physical activity recommendations had a lower risk of death from cardiovascular disease.

• Those who worked out two to four times above the moderate physical activity recommendations—about 300 to 599 minutes each week—saw the most benefit.

• Participants had a 26% to 31% lower all-cause mortality while 28% to 38% had lower cardiovascular mortality. On top of that, 25% to 27% experienced lower non-cardiovascular mortality.

Wrap It Up Adults who worked out two to four times more than the vigorous physical activity recommendations—about 150 to 299 minutes per week—were found to have 21% to 23% lower all-cause mortality, according to the study. They were also reported to have 27% to 33% lower cardiovascular mortality and 19% lower non-cardiovascular mortality. Alright, that’s it. Keep on keepin’ on. Keep changing our profession from your corner of the world. The world needs evidence-based, patient-centered practitioners driving the bus. The profession needs us in the ACA and involved in leadership of state associations. So quit griping about the profession if you’re doing nothing to make it better. Get active, get involved, and make it happen. Let’s get to the message. Same as it is every week.

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I want you to know with absolute certainty that when Chiropractic is at its best, you can’t beat the risk vs reward ratio because spinal pain is primarily a movement-related pain and typically responds better to movement-related treatment rather than chemical treatments like pills and shots.

When compared to the traditional medical model, research and clinical experience show us patients can get good to excellent results for headaches, neck pain, back pain, and joint pain to name just a few.

It’s safe and cost-effective can decrease surgeries & disability and we do it through conservative, non-surgical means with minimal hassle to the patient.

And, if the patient treats preventatively after initial recovery, we can usually keep it that way while raising the overall level of health!

Key Point:

At the end of the day, patients should have the guarantee of having the best treatment that offers the least harm. When it comes to non-complicated musculoskeletal complaints….

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