New York City Chiropractic Newsletter for February 2017
Combined DC/MD Care is Beneficial
Doctors working together benefits patients. Rosenberg Wellness Center is always ready to work with New York City healthcare colleagues to help a New York City 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 lessen 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! Rosenberg Wellness Center is ready to help!
Proper Timing for Back or Neck Surgery
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 symptoms though 4 weeks may be considered and between 4 and 8 weeks for lumbar radiculopathy (leg/lower extremity pain). (3) Rosenberg Wellness Center, of course, aims to prevent surgery and recognizes when it is necessary and is ready to refer any New York City back pain sufferer when it’s time. Trust Rosenberg Wellness Center 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. And to cheer those New York City chiropractic patients who don’t like veggies as much, fruit seems to contribute more positively than vegetables. (4) Eat some fruit and vegetables today for less osteoporosis and pain tomorrow.
Back Pain’s Relationship to Vitamin D
Low vitamin D levels for New York City chronic low back pain sufferers isn’t good. The good news is that vitamin D supplementation helps! Improved vitamin D levels via supplementation show lowered pain intensity and better function ability in chronic low back pain patients. (5) Rosenberg Wellness Center loves that such a simple task as a nutritional supplement may help our New York City chiropractic patients so much!
Everything is connected! Rosenberg Wellness Center knows this to be true! Researchers suggest that tinnitus may be helped when cervical spine disorders are improved. There’s 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 New York City friend? Rosenberg Wellness Center offers gentle chiropractic care to help them both potentially! New York City chiropractic may help.
Osteoporosis and Obesity – The Link
When we think about osteoporosis, we used to think thin people were at risk. That’s what Rosenberg Wellness Center would think. But not now! New research reports that obesity is a big 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 New York City folks – thin and overweight – need to be mindful of osteoporosis risk and how to prevent it.
So did any of these issues catch your attention? Yes? Schedule a New York City chiropractic appointment today with Rosenberg Wellness Center. It’s the first step toward relief!