Pain changes everything. Chiropractic care changes pain.
- Dr. Truong has a special interest in treating acute and chronic back pain.
- Common conditions Dr. Truong treats include: Migraines/headaches, whiplash, neck pain, back pain, TMJ dysfunction, shoulder pain, tennis elbow, pinched nerves, sciatica, discogenic pain, hip pain, knee pain and achilles tendinitis
- The Research – Landmark articles:
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- In 1979, the New Zealand Commission recommended that there be government funding for chiropractic services. “[M]odern chiropractic is soundly-based and valuable branch of health care specialized in a area neglected by the medical profession”.
- In 1990, a randomized control trial by Meade et. al. concluded that “chiropractic treatment was more effective than hospital outpatient management [medication and physiotherapy], mainly for patients with chronic or severe back pain.”
- In 1993, Manga et. al. reported that “[o]n the evidence, particularly the most scientifically valid clinical studies, spinal manipulation applied by chiropractors is shown to be more effective than alternative treatments for low back pain. Many medical therapies [muscle relaxants, NSAIDs, opioids, injections and surgery] are of questionable validity or are clearly inadequate”. The “reading of the literature suggests that chiropractic manipulation is safer than medical management of low back pain. There is an overwhelming body of evidence indicating that chiropractic management of low-back pain is more cost-effective than medical management”.
- In 2010, Bishop et. al. conducted a randomized control trial on the effectiveness of clinical practice guidelines in the medical and chiropractic management of patients with acute mechanical low back pain. The results demonstrated a 2700% greater improvement at 16 week follow up for the participant group that received a maximum of 4 weeks of chiropractic care at 2-3 times per week in contrast to the participant group that received a full 16 weeks of NSAIDs and opioids, physiotherapy, massage therapy or care from a kinesiologist.
- In 2017, Paige et. al. produced a systematic review studying the effectiveness of spinal manipulative therapy for acute (≤ 6 weeks) low back pain. The results demonstrated that spinal manipulative therapy was associated with high to moderate improvements in pain and function in patients with acute low back pain at up to 6 weeks follow up.
- References:
- www.thewellnesspractice.com
- New Zealand. Commission of Inquiry into Chiropractic (1979). Chiropractic in New Zealand : report of the Commission of Inquiry. Govt. Printer, Wellington, N.Z
- The Effectiveness and Cost-Effectiveness of Chiropractic Management of Low-Back Pain, Pran Manga, Ph.D., Douglas Angus, M.A., Costa Papadopoulos, M.H.A., William Swan, B.A., Funded by the Ontario Ministry of Health. August 1993.
- Bishop PB, Quon JA, Fisher CG, et al. The Chiropractic Hospital-based Interventions Research Outcomes (CHIRO) study: a randomized controlled trial on the effectiveness of clinical practice guidelines in the medical
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