Groton Chiropractic Newsletter for February 2017
All Benefit when DCs and MDs Work Together
Patient benefit when doctors work together. 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 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! Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office 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 symptoms though 4 weeks may be contemplated 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.
Eat Healthy!
It’s not just a motto! 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. And to cheer those Groton chiropractic patients who don’t like veggies as much, fruit seems to contribute more positively than vegetables. (4) Eat some fruit and vegetables today for less osteoporosis and pain tomorrow.
Vitamin D and Back Pain
Low vitamin D levels for Groton chronic low back pain sufferers isn’t good. The good news is that vitamin D supplementation helps! An better 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!
Everything is connected! Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office knows this to be true! Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office 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’s a link between the dorsal cochlear nucleus in the auditory pathway and the cervical spine. (6) Does tinnitus with a cervical spine condition disturb you? A Groton friend? Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office offers gentle chiropractic care to help them both potentially! Groton chiropractic may help.
Obesity Increases Risk of Osteoporosis
When we think about osteoporosis, we used to think thin people were at risk. That’s what Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office would think. But not now! New research finds that obesity is a big 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 Groton folks – thin and overweight – need to be mindful of osteoporosis risk and how to manage it.
So did any of these issues catch your attention? Yes? Make a Groton chiropractic appointment today with Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office. It’s the first step toward relief!