Tonawanda Chiropractic Newsletter for February 2017
All Benefit when DCs and MDs Work Together
Doctors working together benefits patients. Working with a Tonawanda healthcare colleague to help one of our Tonawanda chiropractic patients is always an honor! A new study shows that when family medicine residents and chiropractors cooperatively care for older patients with back pain, everyone wins. Patients liked it. Both types of doctors liked getting to know each other’s treatment approaches. (1) While another study demonstrates that multidisciplinary conferences involving many types of doctors lessen the use of spinal fusion for low back and improve the matching of surgical type to the proper patient type. (2) It’s all good! Chiropractic Spine Sports And Rehabilitation is ready to help!
Proper Timing for Back or Neck Surgery
It’s found that 88% of cervical radiculopathy patients and 70% of lumbar radiculopathy patients improve within 4 weeks of symptom onset. Therefore, prime timing for surgery for cervical radiculopathy (arm/upper extremity pain) is within 8 weeks of symptom onset though 4 weeks may be considered and between 4 and 8 weeks for lumbar radiculopathy (leg/lower extremity pain). (3) Chiropractic Spine Sports And Rehabilitation, of course, aims to prevent surgery and recognizes when it is necessary and is ready to refer any Tonawanda back pain sufferer when it’s time. Count on Chiropractic Spine Sports And Rehabilitation for your non-surgical back pain and neck pain care.
Healthy Eating!
It’s not just a motto! Eating healthily lowers the risk of osteoporosis and improves bone mineral density. Those who eat more vegetables and fruits have less osteoposis and higher bone mineral density in middle and older age. And to cheer those Tonawanda chiropractic patients who don’t like veggies as much, fruit seems to contribute more positively than vegetables. (4) Less osteoporosis can potentially mean less back pain later in life, so enjoy some veggies and fruit today!
Back Pain’s Relationship to Vitamin D
Tonawanda chronic low back pain sufferers who also have low vitamin D levels benefit from vitamin D supplementation. An improved vitamin D level aids to reduce pain intensity and improve function in chronic low back pain patients. (5) Chiropractic Spine Sports And Rehabilitation thinks it’s nice that a simple intervention as a nutritional supplement may have such a powerful impact on back pain!
Our body is one big linked system! Chiropractic Spine Sports And Rehabilitation knows this to be true! Chiropractic Spine Sports And Rehabilitation just read this study about tinnitus and its potential relationship to cervical spine disorders. That makes sense! They find that when cervical spine disorders are alleviated, so is the tinnitus. There is a link between the dorsal cochlear nucleus in the auditory pathway and the cervical spine. (6) If tinnitus along with a cervical spine condition concerns you or a friend, let’s see what Chiropractic Spine Sports And Rehabilitation can do to help! Tonawanda chiropractic may help.
Osteoporosis and Obesity – The Link
When we think about osteoporosis, we used to think thin people were at risk. Chiropractic Spine Sports And Rehabilitation often thought that. But not now! New research reports that obesity is a big risk factor for osteoporosis since fat is used by inflammatory cytokines to negatively control bone metabolism. (7) Now, that’s new news. All of us Tonawanda folks – thin and overweight – must be aware of osteoporosis risk and how to prevent it.
So did any of these issues catch your attention? Yes? Make a Tonawanda chiropractic appointment today with Chiropractic Spine Sports And Rehabilitation. It’s the first step toward relief!