Toronto Chiropractic Newsletter for February 2017
Combined DC/MD Care is Beneficial
Doctors working together benefits patients. Working with a Toronto healthcare colleague to help one of our Toronto chiropractic patients is always an honor! 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 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! Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre is ready to help!
When Would Back Surgery Be Appropriate?
It’s found 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 considered and between 4 and 8 weeks for lumbar radiculopathy (leg/lower extremity pain). (3) Naturally, Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre works toward surgery necessity but knows when to refer appropriate patients for surgical care. There are times when it is. Count on Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre for your non-surgical back pain and neck pain care.
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 caused higher bone mineral density and less osteoporosis occurrence in middle-aged and elderly persons with lower body mass indices. If you are one of those Toronto 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 Toronto chronic low back pain sufferers isn’t good. The good news is that vitamin D supplementation helps! An improved vitamin D level aids to reduce pain intensity and improve function in chronic low back pain patients. (5) Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre loves that such a simple task as a nutritional supplement may help our Toronto chiropractic patients so much!
Everything is connected! Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre knows this to be true! Researchers suggest that tinnitus may be improved when cervical spine disorders are improved. 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 is an issue for you or a friend, let’s see what Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre can do to help! Toronto chiropractic may help.
Obesity Increases Risk of Osteoporosis
When we think about osteoporosis, we used to think of thin people as being the ones at risk. Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre 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 Toronto folks – thin and overweight – need to be attentive of osteoporosis risk and how to prevent it.
So did any of these issues catch your attention? Yes? Make a Toronto chiropractic appointment today with Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre. What a great first step toward relief!