Carrolltown Chiropractic Newsletter for February 2017
All Benefit when DCs and MDs Work Together
Patient benefit when doctors work together. Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation is always ready to work with Carrolltown healthcare colleagues to help a Carrolltown chiropractic patient! A new study reports 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! Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation is ready to help!
Proper Timing for Back or Neck Surgery
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) Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation, of course, aims to prevent surgery and recognizes when it is necessary and is ready to refer any Carrolltown back pain sufferer when it’s time. Count on Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation 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 lowers 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 Carrolltown 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
Carrolltown chronic low back pain sufferers who also have low vitamin D levels benefit from vitamin D supplementation. An improved vitamin D level helps reduce pain intensity and improve function in chronic low back pain patients. (5) Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation loves that such an easy thing as a nutritional supplement may help our Carrolltown chiropractic patients so much!
Everything is connected! Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation knows this to be true! Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation 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 alleviated, so is the tinnitus. 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 Carrolltown friend? Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation offers gentle chiropractic care to help them both potentially! Carrolltown 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. Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation often thought that. But not now! New research finds that obesity is a major 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 Carrolltown folks – thin and overweight – need to be attentive of osteoporosis risk and how to manage it.
So did any of these issues catch your attention? Yes? Schedule a Carrolltown chiropractic appointment today with Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation. What a great first step toward relief!