Fernandina Beach Chiropractic Newsletter for February 2017
Combined DC/MD Care is Beneficial
Patient benefit when doctors work together. Amelia Chiropractic Clinic is always ready to work with Fernandina Beach healthcare colleagues to help a Fernandina Beach 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 connecting many kinds of providers decrease 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! Amelia Chiropractic Clinic 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) Naturally, Amelia Chiropractic Clinic works toward surgery necessity but knows when to refer appropriate patients for surgical care. There are times when it is. Trust Amelia Chiropractic Clinic for your back and neck pain care needs.
Eat Healthy!
It’s not just a motto! Healthy eating improves bone mineral density and lowers the risk of osteoporosis. Those who consume more vegetables and fruits have less osteoposis and higher bone mineral density in middle and older age. If you are one of those Fernandina Beach chiropractic patients who don’t like vegetables much, you are in luck! Fruit more so than vegetables seems to be better. (4) Eat some fruit and vegetables today for less osteoporosis and pain tomorrow.
Vitamin D and Back Pain
Low vitamin D levels for Fernandina Beach 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) Amelia Chiropractic Clinic loves that such an easy thing as a nutritional supplement may help our Fernandina Beach chiropractic patients so much!
Our body is one big linked system! Amelia Chiropractic Clinic knows this to be true! Researchers suggest that tinnitus may be helped when cervical spine disorders are alleviated. There’s 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 Fernandina Beach friend? Amelia Chiropractic Clinic offers gentle chiropractic care to help them both potentially! Fernandina Beach chiropractic may help.
Osteoporosis and Obesity – The Link
It’s usually thought that osteoporosis happens in thin people. Amelia Chiropractic Clinic often thought that. But not now! New research finds that obesity is a big risk factor for osteoporosis since fat is used by inflammatory cytokines to negatively influence bone metabolism. (7) Now, that’s new news. All of us Fernandina Beach folks – thin and overweight – need to be mindful of osteoporosis risk and how to prevent it.
If any of these topics affect you or a Fernandina Beach loved one, schedule a Fernandina Beach chiropractic appointment today with Amelia Chiropractic Clinic. What a great first step toward relief!