St Peters Chiropractic Newsletter from Old Mill Chiropractic for February 2017
Combined DC/MD Care is Beneficial
Doctors working together benefits patients. Old Mill Chiropractic is always ready to work with St Peters healthcare colleagues to help a St Peters chiropractic patient! 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 involving many kinds 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! Old Mill Chiropractic 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 symptoms though 4 weeks may be considered and between 4 and 8 weeks for lumbar radiculopathy (leg/lower extremity pain). (3) Old Mill Chiropractic, of course, aims to prevent surgery and recognizes when it is necessary and is ready to refer any St Peters back pain sufferer when it’s time. Trust Old Mill Chiropractic for your back and neck pain care needs.
Healthy Eating!
It’s not just a motto! Eating healthily reduces the risk of osteoporosis and improves bone mineral density. Eating more fruits and vegetables resulted in higher bone mineral density and less osteoporosis occurrence in middle-aged and elderly persons with lower body mass indices. If you are one of those St Peters 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!
Vitamin D and Back Pain
Low vitamin D levels for St Peters chronic low back pain sufferers isn’t good. The good news is that vitamin D supplementation helps! An better vitamin D level helps reduce pain intensity and improve function in chronic low back pain patients. (5) Old Mill Chiropractic thinks it’s nice that an easy intervention as a nutritional supplement may mean so much for back pain!
Everything is connected! Old Mill Chiropractic knows this to be true! Researchers suggest that tinnitus may be helped when cervical spine disorders are improved. There is a connection between the dorsal cochlear nucleus in the auditory pathway and the cervical spine. (6) If tinnitus along with a cervical spine condition is an issue for you or a friend, let’s see what Old Mill Chiropractic can do to help! St Peters 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 Old Mill 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 control bone metabolism. (7) Now, that’s new news. All of us St Peters folks – thin and overweight – must be attentive of osteoporosis risk and how to manage it.
If any of these topics affect you or a St Peters loved one, schedule a St Peters chiropractic appointment today with Old Mill Chiropractic. It’s the first step toward relief!