Manchester Osteoporosis & Fracture Prevention with Calcium and Vitamin D
Fractures are disruptive. Fractures hurt. Fractures keep you from doing what you want to do. Fractures are pricey in terms of time, money and suffering. How can osteoporotic fractures be prevented? Calcium and vitamin D supplementation for those who have osteoporosis. Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries cares for many Manchester osteoporotic patients and endorses preventive measures like nutritional supplementation to deter osteoporotic fractures and keep our Manchester chiropractic patients strong and healthy.
SUPPLEMENTATION SAVES SUFFERING AND MONEY FOR FRACTURES
Your Manchester chiropractor realizes that supplementing with calcium and vitamin D supports the health of bones and helps them be strong. This feeding and strengthening ideally should start in the teen years, but supplementing at any age is beneficial. A recent study of osteoporosis patients in the European Union and the United States shares a some startling statistics:
(A) more than 500,000 fractures a year in the European Union and 300,000 in the US could be prevented if every adult with osteoporosis in the EU and US used calcium and vitamin D and
(B) lots of money could be saved: €5.7 billion in the EU and $3.3 billion in the US. (1)
Those are some huge numbers! Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries surely encourages backing this effort to save money and, more importantly, suffering by supplementing with calcium and vitamin D3.
THE PROPER TYPE OF SUPPLEMENT IS KEY
Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries is very certain that if you are making the effort to take calcium and vitamin D, you want it to work. You want the nutrients to be absorbed as much as possible. That’s where the type of vitamin D you choose is important. Attaining and keeping adequate levels of vitamin D is also key for bone and general health. This is an issue for people everywhere. Why? Absorption. Absorption may be delayed in conditions like obesity in which nutrients get trapped in the adipose tissue, in diseases that are known for decreased intestinal absorption, and with some neurological diseases that require special drugs that predispose the person’s system to not synthesize the calcifediol successfully. The recommendation in this recent research paper is to take oral calcifediol (vitamin D3) as it is three to five times more powerful and has a higher rate of intestinal absorption. (2) Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries sees this as important.
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Chiropractors incorporate spinal manipulation, exercise, nutrition, and more into a treatment plan. Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Jeremy Heidt on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson who shares his plan of care for a patient’s neck pain and migraine as it is exemplary of Manchester chiropractic care that incorporates nutrition, lifestyle tips, exercise, and spinal manipulation using gentle Cox® Technic to manage spine-related pain.
Schedule a Manchester chiropractic appointment with Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries today. Why? It helps prevent osteoporotic fractures and saves quite a bit of money! Just remember the answer to this question: “How might osteoporotic fractures be avoided?” Calcium and vitamin D supplementation.
