Murfreesboro Chiropractic Newsletter for February 2017
Combined DC/MD Care is Beneficial
Doctors working together benefits patients. Working with a Murfreesboro healthcare colleague to help one of our Murfreesboro chiropractic patients is always an honor! A new study reports 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 involving many types of providers lessen 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! Most Chiropractic Clinic is ready to help!
When Would Back Surgery Be Appropriate?
Research reports 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 contemplated and between 4 and 8 weeks for lumbar radiculopathy (leg/lower extremity pain). (3) Most Chiropractic Clinic, of course, aims to prevent surgery and recognizes when it is necessary and is ready to refer any Murfreesboro back pain sufferer when it’s time. Trust Most Chiropractic Clinic 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. Consuming more fruits and vegetables caused higher bone mineral density and less osteoporosis rate in middle-aged and elderly persons with lower body mass indices. And to cheer those Murfreesboro 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.
Back Pain’s Relationship to Vitamin D
Low vitamin D levels for Murfreesboro chronic low back pain sufferers isn’t good. The good news is that vitamin D supplementation helps! Improved vitamin D levels via supplementation show lowered pain intensity and better function ability in chronic low back pain patients. (5) Most Chiropractic Clinic thinks it’s nice that a simple intervention as a nutritional supplement may mean so much for back pain!
Everything is connected! Most Chiropractic Clinic knows this to be true! Researchers suggest that tinnitus may be helped when cervical spine disorders are helped. 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 disturb you? A Murfreesboro friend? Most Chiropractic Clinic offers gentle chiropractic care to help them both potentially! Murfreesboro chiropractic may help.
Obesity Increases Risk of Osteoporosis
It’s usually thought that osteoporosis occurs in thin people. That’s what Most Chiropractic Clinic would think. But not now! New research finds that obesity is a big 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 Murfreesboro folks – thin and overweight – must be attentive of osteoporosis risk and how to manage it.
If any of these topics affect you or a Murfreesboro loved one, schedule a Murfreesboro chiropractic appointment today with Most Chiropractic Clinic. It’s the first step toward relief!