Combined DC/MD Care is Beneficial
Doctors working together benefits patients. New Hampshire Spine and Sport is always ready to work with Southern New Hampshire healthcare colleagues to help a Southern New Hampshire 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 demonstrates that multidisciplinary conferences connecting many kinds 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! New Hampshire Spine and Sport 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 contemplated and between 4 and 8 weeks for lumbar radiculopathy (leg/lower extremity pain). (3) New Hampshire Spine and Sport, of course, aims to prevent surgery and recognizes when it is necessary and is ready to refer any Southern New Hampshire back pain sufferer when it’s time. Count on New Hampshire Spine and Sport for your non-surgical back pain and neck pain care.
Eat Healthy!
It’s not just a motto! 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 Southern New Hampshire 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
Southern New Hampshire chronic low back pain sufferers who also have low vitamin D levels benefit from vitamin D supplementation. Increased vitamin D levels via supplementation show lowered pain intensity and better function ability in chronic low back pain patients. (5) New Hampshire Spine and Sport loves that such a simple task as a nutritional supplement may help our Southern New Hampshire chiropractic patients so much!
Cervical Spine and Tinnitus Related
Everything is connected! New Hampshire Spine and Sport knows this to be true! Researchers report that tinnitus may be helped when cervical spine disorders are helped. There’s a link between the dorsal cochlear nucleus in the auditory pathway and the cervical spine. (6) If tinnitus along with a cervical spine condition is an issue for you or a friend, let’s see what New Hampshire Spine and Sport can do to help! Southern New Hampshire chiropractic may help.
Osteoporosis and Obesity – The Link
It’s usually thought that osteoporosis happens in thin people. New Hampshire Spine and Sport 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 Southern New Hampshire folks – thin and overweight – need to be mindful of osteoporosis risk and how to manage it.
So did any of these issues catch your attention? Yes? Make a Southern New Hampshire chiropractic appointment today with New Hampshire Spine and Sport. It’s the first step toward relief!