Baton Rouge Chiropractic Newsletter from Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers for February 2017
Combined DC/MD Care is Beneficial
Doctors working together benefits patients. Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers is always ready to work with Baton Rouge healthcare colleagues to help a Baton Rouge 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! Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers is ready to help!
When Would Back Surgery Be Appropriate?
Research reports that 88% of cervical radiculopathy patients and 70% of lumbar radiculopathy patients improve within 4 weeks of symptom onset. Therefore, prime 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, Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers works toward surgery necessity but knows when to refer appropriate patients for surgical care. There are times when it is. Trust Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers for your back and neck pain care needs.
Healthy Eating!
It’s not just a slogan! Healthy eating improves bone mineral density and lowers the risk of osteoporosis. 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 Baton Rouge 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.
Back Pain’s Relationship to Vitamin D
Baton Rouge chronic low back pain sufferers who also have low vitamin D levels benefit from vitamin D supplementation. An improved vitamin D level aids to reduce pain intensity and improve function in chronic low back pain patients. (5) Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers thinks it’s nice that an easy intervention as a nutritional supplement may mean so much for back pain!
Everything is connected! Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers knows this to be true! Researchers propose that tinnitus may be improved when cervical spine disorders are helped. There is a connection between the dorsal cochlear nucleus in the auditory pathway and the cervical spine. (6) Does tinnitus with a cervical spine condition bother you? A Baton Rouge friend? Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers offers gentle chiropractic care to help them both potentially! Baton Rouge chiropractic may help.
Obesity Increases Osteoporosis Risk
It’s usually thought that osteoporosis occurs in thin people. Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers 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 Baton Rouge 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 Baton Rouge chiropractic appointment today with Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers. What a great first step toward relief!