Plainville Chiropractic Newsletter from Layden Chiropractic for February 2017
Combined DC/MD Care is Beneficial
Doctors working together benefits patients. Working with a Plainville healthcare colleague to help one of our Plainville 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 connecting many types of providers decrease 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! Layden Chiropractic is ready to help!
When Would Back Surgery Be Suitable?
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 considered and between 4 and 8 weeks for lumbar radiculopathy (leg/lower extremity pain). (3) Layden Chiropractic, of course, aims to prevent surgery and recognizes when it is necessary and is ready to refer any Plainville back pain sufferer when it’s time. Count on Layden Chiropractic for your non-surgical back pain and neck pain care.
Eat Healthy!
It’s not just a slogan! 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 Plainville 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.
Vitamin D and Back Pain
Plainville chronic low back pain sufferers who also have low vitamin D levels benefit from vitamin D supplementation. Increased vitamin D levels via supplementation show lowered pain intensity and improved function ability in chronic low back pain patients. (5) Layden Chiropractic loves that such an easy thing as a nutritional supplement may help our Plainville chiropractic patients so much!
Everything is connected! Layden Chiropractic knows this to be true! Researchers report that tinnitus may be helped when cervical spine disorders are alleviated. There is 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 Plainville friend? Layden Chiropractic offers gentle chiropractic care to help them both potentially! Plainville chiropractic may help.
Osteoporosis and Obesity – The Link
When we think about osteoporosis, we used to think of thin people as being the ones at risk. That’s what Layden Chiropractic would think. But not now! New research finds that obesity is a major 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 Plainville folks – thin and overweight – need to be aware of osteoporosis risk and how to prevent it.
So did any of these issues catch your attention? Yes? Make a Plainville chiropractic appointment today with Layden Chiropractic. What a great first step toward relief!