Fort Wayne Chiropractic Newsletter for February 2017
Combined DC/MD Care is Beneficial
Doctors working together benefits patients. Aaron Chiropractic Clinic is always ready to work with Fort Wayne healthcare colleagues to help a Fort Wayne chiropractic patient! 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 reveals 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’s all good! Aaron Chiropractic Clinic 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, optimal timing for surgery for cervical radiculopathy (arm/upper extremity pain) is within 8 weeks of symptom onset though 4 weeks may be contemplated and between 4 and 8 weeks for lumbar radiculopathy (leg/lower extremity pain). (3) Naturally, Aaron Chiropractic Clinic works toward surgery necessity but knows when to refer appropriate patients for surgical care. There are times when it is. Trust Aaron Chiropractic Clinic for your back and neck pain care needs.
Healthy Eating!
It’s not just a motto! Eating healthily lowers the risk of osteoporosis and improves bone mineral density. Consuming more fruits and vegetables resulted in 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 Fort Wayne 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
Fort Wayne chronic low back pain sufferers who also have low vitamin D levels benefit from vitamin D supplementation. An better vitamin D level aids to reduce pain intensity and improve function in chronic low back pain patients. (5) Aaron Chiropractic Clinic loves that such an easy thing as a nutritional supplement may help our Fort Wayne chiropractic patients so much!
Everything is connected! Aaron Chiropractic Clinic knows this to be true! Researchers report that tinnitus may be improved 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 upset you? A Fort Wayne friend? Aaron Chiropractic Clinic offers gentle chiropractic care to help them both potentially! Fort Wayne chiropractic may help.
Obesity Increases Osteoporosis Risk
When we think about osteoporosis, we used to think thin people were at risk. Aaron Chiropractic Clinic often thought that. But not now! New research reports that obesity is a big 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 Fort Wayne folks – thin and overweight – must be aware of osteoporosis risk and how to manage it.
So did any of these issues catch your attention? Yes? Schedule a Fort Wayne chiropractic appointment today with Aaron Chiropractic Clinic. It’s the first step toward relief!