Manahawkin Chiropractic Newsletter from Manahawkin Chiropractic Center for February 2017
All Benefit when DCs and MDs Work Together
Doctors working together benefits patients. Working with a Manahawkin healthcare colleague to help one of our Manahawkin 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 reveals that multidisciplinary conferences connecting many types of doctors decrease 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! Manahawkin Chiropractic Center 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 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 symptom onset though 4 weeks may be considered and between 4 and 8 weeks for lumbar radiculopathy (leg/lower extremity pain). (3) Naturally, Manahawkin Chiropractic Center works toward surgery necessity but knows when to refer appropriate patients for surgical care. There are times when it is. Count on Manahawkin Chiropractic Center for your non-surgical back pain and neck pain care.
Eat Healthy!
It’s not just a motto! Eating healthily reduces the risk of osteoporosis and improves bone mineral density. Eating 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 Manahawkin 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 Manahawkin chronic low back pain sufferers isn’t good. The good news is that vitamin D supplementation helps! Improved vitamin D levels via supplementation show lowered pain intensity and better function ability in chronic low back pain patients. (5) Manahawkin Chiropractic Center thinks it’s nice that a simple intervention as a nutritional supplement may have such a powerful impact on back pain!
Everything is connected! Manahawkin Chiropractic Center knows this to be true! Manahawkin 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 alleviated, so is the tinnitus. There’s a connection 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 Manahawkin Chiropractic Center can do to help! Manahawkin chiropractic may help.
Osteoporosis and Obesity – The Link
It’s usually thought that osteoporosis occurs in thin people. That’s what Manahawkin Chiropractic Center would think. But not now! New research finds 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 Manahawkin folks – thin and overweight – must be mindful of osteoporosis risk and how to manage it.
So did any of these issues catch your attention? Yes? Schedule a Manahawkin chiropractic appointment today with Manahawkin Chiropractic Center. What a great first step toward relief!