by admin | Jan 4, 2018 | Uncategorized
Hi everyone! We are still open today seeing patients and accepting new patients from 3PM-6PM! Call us at 302-368-1300 or email at info@handsforlifeomega.org to schedule your chiropractic appointment! And be safe out...
by admin | Dec 13, 2017 | Uncategorized
Holiday Office Hours: Here are our upcoming holiday hours, please take note! Saturday December 23rd: Normal Office Hours Monday December 25th: CLOSED Tuesday December 26th: Normal Office Hours Saturday December 30th: Normal Office Hours Monday January 1st: CLOSED Tuesday January 2nd: Normal Office Hours All other dates and times will have normal hours. Happy Holidays...
by admin | Nov 14, 2017 | Uncategorized
This post is going to be a little lengthy but I hope that you will read each of the summaries below. Right now chiropractic is at about a 7% utilization among the US population. To give you some comparison of what kind of uphill battle we’ve got, in 2010 enough opioid pain relievers were sold to medicate every American adult with a typical dose of 5mg of hydrocodone every 4 hours for 1 month. What you’ll see below is some of the peer reviewed evidence that proves that chiropractic should be a first line treatment option for some musculoskeletal pain conditions! Effectiveness of Treatment: – Spine Journal 2014: Chiropractic treatment led to greater short term reductions in self reported pain and disability than usual medical care. These changes were both statistically significant and clinically meaningful.(https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25423308) – British Medical Journal 1990: Chiropractic was more effective than hospital outpatient management for patients with chronic or severe lower back pain. Including chiropractic into National Hospital Services should be considered.(https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2143092) – Journal of Manipulative & Physiological Therapeutics 2010: 60% of patients with sciatica who had failed other medical management benefited from spinal manipulation to the same degree as if they underwent surgical intervention.(http://www.jmptonline.org/article/S0161-4754(10)00211-3/abstract) – Annals of Internal Medicine 2012: For patients with acute and subacute neck pain, spinal manipulative therapy was more effective than medication in both the short and long term.(https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22213489) – Journal of Manipulative & Physiological Therapeutics 2014: For patients with acute and chronic lumbar disc herniation confirmed via MRI, significant improvement for all outcomes was reported at all time points, with 90.5% of patients reporting improvement at 3...
by admin | Oct 26, 2017 | Uncategorized
RE: Newsweek Article: How the VA Fueled the National Opioid Crisis and is Killing Thousands of Veterans by Art Levine, 10/12/17 To whom it may concern, My name is Dr. Travis McKay and I am a healthcare practitioner here in the state of Delaware. I read the above article by Mr. Levine over the weekend and was obviously distressed by its contents. My unease when reading it was primarily fueled by what is happening to our country’s veterans and how many of them are affected by this opioid epidemic that we are currently dealing with. However, I was also upset about the idea of how this negatively paints the members of the VA, and the staff that works tirelessly there to serve our veterans. I know, and have actually treated, some of your staff members before, and never have I met one who I didn’t feel cared about their patients and was doing whatever was in there power to treat them the best they could, with the tools at their disposal. This is why I’m writing to you. Not to chastise or cast blame your way, but rather to discuss those tools that your facility uses to deal with your patient’s pain. At my office in Newark, we specialize in dealing with mechanical spine pain patients, both acute and chronic. What makes us different from most pain management offices in Delaware though is that we only provide non-pharmacological treatment options for our patients. These obviously include the standard physical therapy and massage therapy but, unlike others, our main treatment tool is chiropractic. With regards to the tools that...
by admin | Sep 29, 2017 | Uncategorized
90.5% of Patients Report Improvement With Chiropractic After Only 3 Months This study looks at what is the best treatment for MRI confused disc herniations that produces low back pain or leg pain. Not only what’s the best treatment, but comparing the effect of that treatment from 3 months to 1 year. The bottom line of the study is that a “large percentage of acute and importantly chronic lumbar disc herniation patients treated with chiropractic spinal manipulation reported clinically relevant improvement. As clinicians, we are well aware that approximately 70% of the population will have back pain at some time. We are also aware that low back pain with associated leg pain due to a herniated intervertebral disc is one the most severe and disabling forms of back pain. These patients are placed in two categories; conservative care or surgical care. Unfortunately as most Doctor’s of Chiropractic(DC) know, conservative care does not typically include chiropractic care. Instead it may include medications, corticosteroid nerve root or epidural injections, bed rest, and/or physical therapy. In certain cases chiropractic spinal manipulation may be used as a last resort effort, but it’s inclusion in the therapy is usually based on a referral from a friend or family member. The patients in this study were treated with high-velocity, low amplitude spinal manipulation and were tracked in regards to progress made at short, medium, and long term outcome evaluations. The patients in this study were between 18 and 65 years, experiencing back pain and moderate to severe leg pain in a dermatomal pattern with at least one of the following: Decreased straight leg raiser test...
