Minster Chiropractic Newsletter from Minster Chiropractic Center for February 2017
All Benefit when DCs and MDs Work Together
Patient benefit when doctors work together. Minster Chiropractic Center is always ready to work with Minster healthcare colleagues to help a Minster chiropractic patient! 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 reveals that multidisciplinary conferences connecting many types of providers 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! Minster Chiropractic Center is ready to help!
Appropriate Timing for Back or Neck Surgery
It’s found 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 contemplated and between 4 and 8 weeks for lumbar radiculopathy (leg/lower extremity pain). (3) Minster Chiropractic Center, of course, aims to prevent surgery and recognizes when it is necessary and is ready to refer any Minster back pain sufferer when it’s time. Trust Minster Chiropractic Center for your back and neck pain care needs.
Eat Healthy!
It’s not just a slogan! Healthy eating improves bone mineral density and decreases the risk of osteoporosis. Those who consume more vegetables and fruits have less osteoposis and higher bone mineral density in middle and older age. If you are one of those Minster 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!
Vitamin D and Back Pain
Minster chronic low back pain sufferers who also have low vitamin D levels benefit from vitamin D supplementation. An better vitamin D level aids to reduce pain intensity and improve function in chronic low back pain patients. (5) Minster Chiropractic Center loves that such an easy thing as a nutritional supplement may help our Minster chiropractic patients so much!
Everything is connected! Minster Chiropractic Center knows this to be true! Minster Chiropractic Center 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 improved, so is the tinnitus. There’s a link between the dorsal cochlear nucleus in the auditory pathway and the cervical spine. (6) If tinnitus along with a cervical spine condition bothers you or a friend, let’s see what Minster Chiropractic Center can do to help! Minster chiropractic may help.
Osteoporosis and Obesity – The Link
When we think about osteoporosis, we used to think of thin people as being the ones at risk. Minster Chiropractic Center often thought that. But not now! New research finds that obesity is a major 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 Minster 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 Minster chiropractic appointment today with Minster Chiropractic Center. What a great first step toward relief!