Concord, NC Chiropractic Newsletter for February 2017
All Benefit when DCs and MDs Work Together
Patient benefit when doctors work together. Pure Chiropractic is always ready to work with Concord, NC healthcare colleagues to help a Concord, NC chiropractic patient! 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 demonstrates that multidisciplinary conferences involving 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 is all good! Pure Chiropractic 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 symptom onset though 4 weeks may be contemplated and between 4 and 8 weeks for lumbar radiculopathy (leg/lower extremity pain). (3) Pure Chiropractic, of course, aims to prevent surgery and recognizes when it is necessary and is ready to refer any Concord, NC back pain sufferer when it’s time. Count on Pure Chiropractic for your non-surgical back pain and neck pain care.
Healthy Eating!
It’s not just a slogan! Healthy eating improves bone mineral density and decreases the risk of osteoporosis. Eating more fruits and vegetables caused higher bone mineral density and less osteoporosis rate in middle-aged and elderly persons with lower body mass indices. If you are one of those Concord, NC 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 Concord, NC 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) Pure Chiropractic thinks it’s nice that a simple intervention as a nutritional supplement may have such a powerful impact on back pain!
Our body is one big linked system! Pure Chiropractic knows this to be true! Pure Chiropractic 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 is 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 Pure Chiropractic can do to help! Concord, NC chiropractic may help.
Osteoporosis and Obesity – The Link
It’s usually thought that osteoporosis happens in thin people. Pure Chiropractic 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 Concord, NC folks – thin and overweight – must be mindful of osteoporosis risk and how to prevent it.
If any of these topics affect you or a Concord, NC loved one, schedule a Concord, NC chiropractic appointment today with Pure Chiropractic. What a great first step toward relief!