Jeff LangmaidFounder, The Evidence Based Chiropractor

Chiropractic CRUSHES Injections! Study Reveals SHOCKING Pain Relief Results

7 Jan 2024 · 1 min

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Transcript excerpt from a YouTube video by Jeff Langmaid summarizing a study that compared spinal manipulative therapy (chiropractic adjustments) to nerve root steroid injections for patients with large MRI-confirmed disc herniations causing foraminal stenosis. Langmaid reports the chiropractic cohort experienced greater pain reduction than the injection cohort and uses this result to argue chiropractic efficacy and communication/marketing importance for practices.

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Here's what this study title means. They took a bunch of people that had huge disc herniations on mri, huge disc herniation pressing into a foraminal canal causing foraminal stenosis. And half of those people got chiropractic care or spinal manipulation in the literature. Half of those people got injections. They found that the spinal manipulative therapy cohort had a greater reduction in pain than the nerve root injection cohort. Why does that matter? They literally took steroids, injected it where the pain was. That should probably make somebody feel a little bit better. And then they took people and had a chiropractic adjustment and we outperformed that. That's insane. That is wild. That is the power of who we are and what we do. We didn't even get into increasing cortical drive and strength, athletic performance, injury reduction. And we'll outperform every day, all day. What's going on? If your practice is not full to the gills, it is a communication issue. It's not a clinical issue. 99.9% of the time.