San Jose Chiropractic Newsletter from Chiropractic Solutions for February 2017
All Benefit when DCs and MDs Work Together
Doctors working together benefits patients. Chiropractic Solutions is always ready to work with San Jose healthcare colleagues to help a San Jose 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 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! Chiropractic Solutions is ready to help!
When Would Back Surgery Be Suitable?
Research reports that 88% of cervical radiculopathy patients and 70% of lumbar radiculopathy patients improve 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 considered and between 4 and 8 weeks for lumbar radiculopathy (leg/lower extremity pain). (3) Chiropractic Solutions, of course, aims to prevent surgery and recognizes when it is necessary and is ready to refer any San Jose back pain sufferer when it’s time. Count on Chiropractic Solutions for your non-surgical back pain and neck pain care.
Eat Healthy!
It’s not just a motto! Eating healthily reduces the risk of osteoporosis and improves bone mineral density. Those who eat more vegetables and fruits have less osteoposis and higher bone mineral density in middle and older age. If you are one of those San Jose 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
Low vitamin D levels for San Jose chronic low back pain sufferers isn’t good. The good news is that vitamin D supplementation helps! An improved vitamin D level helps reduce pain intensity and improve function in chronic low back pain patients. (5) Chiropractic Solutions loves that such an easy thing as a nutritional supplement may help our San Jose chiropractic patients so much!
Everything is connected! Chiropractic Solutions knows this to be true! Chiropractic Solutions 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 improved, so is the tinnitus. 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 concerns you or a friend, let’s see what Chiropractic Solutions can do to help! San Jose chiropractic may help.
Osteoporosis and Obesity – The Link
When we think about osteoporosis, we used to think thin people were at risk. Chiropractic Solutions often thought that. 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 San Jose folks – thin and overweight – must be aware of osteoporosis risk and how to prevent it.
If any of these topics affect you or a San Jose loved one, make a San Jose chiropractic appointment today with Chiropractic Solutions. It’s the first step toward relief!