Elgin Chiropractic Newsletter from Connected Chiropractic for February 2017
Combined DC/MD Care is Beneficial
Doctors working together benefits patients. Working with a Elgin healthcare colleague to help one of our Elgin 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 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! Connected Chiropractic is ready to help!
When Would Back Surgery Be Appropriate?
It’s found that 88% of cervical radiculopathy patients and 70% of lumbar radiculopathy patients show improvement within 4 weeks of symptom onset. Therefore, prime 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) Connected Chiropractic, of course, aims to prevent surgery and recognizes when it is necessary and is ready to refer any Elgin back pain sufferer when it’s time. Trust Connected Chiropractic for your back and neck pain care needs.
Healthy Eating!
It’s not just a slogan! Eating healthily reduces the risk of osteoporosis and improves bone mineral density. 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 Elgin 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!
Back Pain’s Relationship to Vitamin D
Elgin chronic low back pain sufferers who also have low vitamin D levels benefit from vitamin D supplementation. An improved vitamin D level aids to reduce pain intensity and improve function in chronic low back pain patients. (5) Connected Chiropractic loves that such a simple task as a nutritional supplement may help our Elgin chiropractic patients so much!
Our body is one big linked system! Connected Chiropractic knows this to be true! Researchers propose that tinnitus may be improved when cervical spine disorders are improved. There’s a connection between the dorsal cochlear nucleus in the auditory pathway and the cervical spine. (6) Does tinnitus with a cervical spine condition upset you? A Elgin friend? Connected Chiropractic offers gentle chiropractic care to help them both potentially! Elgin chiropractic may help.
Osteoporosis and Obesity – The Link
It’s usually thought that osteoporosis occurs in thin people. That’s what Connected Chiropractic would think. But not now! New research finds 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 Elgin folks – thin and overweight – must be mindful of osteoporosis risk and how to prevent it.
If any of these topics affect you or a Elgin loved one, schedule a Elgin chiropractic appointment today with Connected Chiropractic. It’s the first step toward relief!