Williamson Chiropractic Newsletter for February 2017
Combined DC/MD Care is Beneficial
Patient benefit when doctors work together. Working with a Williamson healthcare colleague to help one of our Williamson 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 benefits. Patients liked it. Both types of doctors liked getting to know each other’s treatment approaches. (1) While another study reveals that multidisciplinary conferences connecting 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! Apple Country Chiropractic is ready to help!
When Would Back Surgery Be Suitable?
Research reports that 88% of cervical radiculopathy patients and 70% of lumbar radiculopathy patients show improvement within 4 weeks of symptom onset. Therefore, optimal timing for surgery for cervical radiculopathy (arm/upper extremity pain) is within 8 weeks of symptoms though 4 weeks may be considered and between 4 and 8 weeks for lumbar radiculopathy (leg/lower extremity pain). (3) Apple Country Chiropractic, of course, aims to prevent surgery and recognizes when it is necessary and is ready to refer any Williamson back pain sufferer when it’s time. Count on Apple Country Chiropractic for your non-surgical back pain and neck pain care.
Eat Healthy!
It’s not just a slogan! Healthy eating improves bone mineral density and decreases the risk of osteoporosis. Consuming more fruits and vegetables resulted in higher bone mineral density and less osteoporosis incidence in middle-aged and elderly persons with lower body mass indices. If you are one of those Williamson chiropractic patients who don’t like vegetables much, you are in luck! Fruit more so than vegetables seems to be better. (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
Williamson chronic low back pain sufferers who also have low vitamin D levels benefit from vitamin D supplementation. An improved vitamin D level helps reduce pain intensity and improve function in chronic low back pain patients. (5) Apple Country Chiropractic loves that such an easy thing as a nutritional supplement may help our Williamson chiropractic patients so much!
Everything is connected! Apple Country Chiropractic knows this to be true! Researchers propose that tinnitus may be helped when cervical spine disorders are improved. There is a connection between the dorsal cochlear nucleus in the auditory pathway and the cervical spine. (6) Does tinnitus with a cervical spine condition upset you? A Williamson friend? Apple Country Chiropractic offers gentle chiropractic care to help them both potentially! Williamson chiropractic may help.
Obesity Increases Osteoporosis Risk
When we think about osteoporosis, we used to think of thin people as being the ones at risk. That’s what Apple Country Chiropractic would think. But not now! New research reports that obesity is a big risk factor for osteoporosis since inflammatory cytokines are used by fat to negatively influence bone metabolism. (7) Now, that’s new news. All of us Williamson folks – thin and overweight – must be attentive of osteoporosis risk and how to manage it.
If any of these topics affect you or a Williamson loved one, make a Williamson chiropractic appointment today with Apple Country Chiropractic. It’s the first step toward relief!