Manchester Chiropractic Newsletter for February 2017
Combined DC/MD Care is Beneficial
Patient benefit when doctors work together. Working with a Manchester healthcare colleague to help one of our Manchester 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 kinds of providers reduce the use of spinal fusion for low back and improve the matching of surgical type to the proper patient type. (2) It is all good! Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries is ready to help!
When Would Back Surgery Be Suitable?
Research reports 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) Naturally, Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries works toward surgery necessity but knows when to refer appropriate patients for surgical care. There are times when it is. Trust Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries for your back and neck pain care needs.
Healthy Eating!
It’s not just a slogan! Healthy eating improves bone mineral density and lowers the risk of osteoporosis. Those who eat more vegetables and fruits have less osteoposis and higher bone mineral density in middle and older age. If you are one of those Manchester 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
Low vitamin D levels for Manchester chronic low back pain sufferers isn’t good. The good news is that vitamin D supplementation helps! Increased vitamin D levels via supplementation show reduced pain intensity and improved function ability in chronic low back pain patients. (5) Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries thinks it’s nice that an easy intervention as a nutritional supplement may mean so much for back pain!
Everything is connected! Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries knows this to be true! Researchers report that tinnitus may be helped when cervical spine disorders are helped. 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 is an issue for you or a friend, let’s see what Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries can do to help! Manchester chiropractic may help.
Osteoporosis and Obesity – The Link
It’s usually thought that osteoporosis occurs in thin people. Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries often thought that. But not now! New research reports that obesity is a major risk factor for osteoporosis since fat is used by inflammatory cytokines to negatively influence bone metabolism. (7) Now, that’s new news. All of us Manchester folks – thin and overweight – need to be mindful of osteoporosis risk and how to prevent it.
So did any of these issues catch your attention? Yes? Make a Manchester chiropractic appointment today with Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries. What a great first step toward relief!