All Benefit when DCs and MDs Work Together
Doctors working together benefits patients. Working with a Groton healthcare colleague to help one of our Groton 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 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 connecting many types 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’s all good! Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office 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 considered and between 4 and 8 weeks for lumbar radiculopathy (leg/lower extremity pain). (3) Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office, of course, aims to prevent surgery and recognizes when it is necessary and is ready to refer any Groton back pain sufferer when it’s time. Trust Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office for your back and neck pain care needs.
Healthy Eating!
It’s not just a motto! Healthy eating improves bone mineral density and decreases the risk of osteoporosis. Those who consume more vegetables and fruits have less osteoposis and higher bone mineral density in middle and older age. If you are one of those Groton chiropractic patients who don’t like vegetables much, you are in luck! Fruit more so than vegetables seems to be better. (4) Eat some fruit and vegetables today for less osteoporosis and pain tomorrow.
Back Pain’s Relationship to Vitamin D
Low vitamin D levels for Groton chronic low back pain sufferers isn’t good. The good news is that vitamin D supplementation helps! An improved vitamin D level aids to reduce pain intensity and improve function in chronic low back pain patients. (5) Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office thinks it’s nice that an easy intervention as a nutritional supplement may have such a powerful impact on back pain!
Cervical Spine and Tinnitus Related
Everything is connected! Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office knows this to be true! Researchers suggest that tinnitus may be improved when cervical spine disorders are improved. There is a link between the dorsal cochlear nucleus in the auditory pathway and the cervical spine. (6) Does tinnitus with a cervical spine condition bother you? A Groton friend? Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office offers gentle chiropractic care to help them both potentially! Groton chiropractic may help.
Osteoporosis and Obesity – The Link
It’s usually thought that osteoporosis happens in thin people. Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office often thought that. But not now! New research finds that obesity is a big risk factor for osteoporosis since fat is used by inflammatory cytokines to negatively control bone metabolism. (7) Now, that’s new news. All of us Groton folks – thin and overweight – must be mindful of osteoporosis risk and how to prevent it.
So did any of these issues catch your attention? Yes? Make a Groton chiropractic appointment today with Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office. What a great first step toward relief!