Richmond Chiropractic Newsletter from Johnson Chiropractic for February 2017
All Benefit when DCs and MDs Work Together
Doctors working together benefits patients. Johnson Chiropractic is always ready to work with Richmond healthcare colleagues to help a Richmond chiropractic patient! A new study reports that when family medicine residents and chiropractors cooperatively care for older patients with back pain, everyone benefits. 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 doctors reduce 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! Johnson Chiropractic is ready to help!
When Would Back Surgery Be Suitable?
Research reports that 88% of cervical radiculopathy patients and 70% of lumbar radiculopathy patients show improvement within 4 weeks of symptom onset. Therefore, prime 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) Johnson Chiropractic, of course, aims to prevent surgery and recognizes when it is necessary and is ready to refer any Richmond back pain sufferer when it’s time. Trust Johnson Chiropractic for your back and neck pain care needs.
Healthy Eating!
It’s not just a slogan! Eating healthily lowers the risk of osteoporosis and improves bone mineral density. 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 Richmond 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 Richmond chronic low back pain sufferers isn’t good. The good news is that vitamin D supplementation helps! Increased vitamin D levels via supplementation show lowered pain intensity and improved function ability in chronic low back pain patients. (5) Johnson Chiropractic thinks it’s nice that an easy intervention as a nutritional supplement may have such a powerful impact on back pain!
Our body is one big linked system! Johnson Chiropractic knows this to be true! Johnson Chiropractic 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 alleviated, so is the tinnitus. There is a link 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 Johnson Chiropractic can do to help! Richmond chiropractic may help.
Osteoporosis and Obesity – The Link
It’s usually thought that osteoporosis happens in thin people. Johnson Chiropractic often thought that. But not now! New research reports 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 Richmond folks – thin and overweight – need to be attentive of osteoporosis risk and how to manage it.
So did any of these issues catch your attention? Yes? Schedule a Richmond chiropractic appointment today with Johnson Chiropractic. It’s the first step toward relief!