With so many people taking prescription medication, there is a distinct possibility that the side effects of such medications may be responsible for the symptoms for which patients seek chiropractic care. In a recent study in Australia, 549 prescription medications were used by 330 patients. A total of 104 individual medications were identified of which 69 listed headache as a potential side effect of their use. Fifty-seven patients who sought care for the treatment of headache were using medication which may produce headache as a side effect of its use. There is a need for chiropractors to be aware of the side effects of prescribed medication their patients may be taking. This is the case not only because of the potential for adverse interaction between treatments, but because symptoms produced by prescribed medication may be responsible for the patient’s clinical presentation.
Dr. Daniels and I discuss some of his publications dealing with prior spine surgery, medications for low back pain, suicide prevention, and health promotion. Dr. Clint Daniels is chiropractic section chief at VA Puget Sound Health Care System in Tacoma, Washington where he supervises a team of 9 chiropractors and is a resident director. He serves on the VA chiropractic Field Advisory Committee as the Research Coordinator, is a scientific commission board member for Clinical Compass, and is appointed to the Washington State Health Technology Clinical Committee. He is a 2010 chiropractic graduate from Logan University, where he also received his Master of Science in Sports Science and Rehabilitation. He worked in private practice for 4 years, and then joined VA and was the first graduate of the St. Louis VA chiropractic integrated clinical practice residency program. He has authored and contributed to numerous scientific publications on the topics of chiropractic integration into veteran and military facilities, postsurgical spine pain, suicide prevention, chiropractic best practices, and numerous case reports on a variety clinical presentations.
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With so many people taking prescription medication, there is a distinct possibility that the side effects of such medications may be responsible for the symptoms for which patients seek chiropractic care. In a recent study in Australia, 549 prescription medications were used by 330 patients. A total of 104 individual medications were identified of which 69 listed headache as a potential side effect of their use. Fifty-seven patients who sought care for the treatment of headache were using medication which may produce headache as a side effect of its use. There is a need for chiropractors to be aware of the side effects of prescribed medication their patients may be taking. This is the case not only because of the potential for adverse interaction between treatments, but because symptoms produced by prescribed medication may be responsible for the patient’s clinical presentation.
