Montreal Chiropractic Newsletter for February 2017
Combined DC/MD Care is Beneficial
Patient benefit when doctors work together. Working with a Montreal healthcare colleague to help one of our Montreal chiropractic patients is always an honor! A new study shows 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 involving 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! Dr. Hoang's Chiropractic Clinic 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 improve within 4 weeks of symptom onset. Therefore, optimal 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, Dr. Hoang's Chiropractic Clinic works toward surgery necessity but knows when to refer appropriate patients for surgical care. There are times when it is. Count on Dr. Hoang's Chiropractic Clinic for your non-surgical back pain and neck pain care.
Eat Healthy!
It’s not just a slogan! Healthy eating improves bone mineral density and decreases the risk of osteoporosis. Eating more fruits and vegetables resulted in higher bone mineral density and less osteoporosis incidence in middle-aged and elderly persons with lower body mass indices. If you are one of those Montreal 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 Montreal chronic low back pain sufferers isn’t good. The good news is that vitamin D supplementation helps! An better vitamin D level helps reduce pain intensity and improve function in chronic low back pain patients. (5) Dr. Hoang's Chiropractic Clinic loves that such a simple task as a nutritional supplement may help our Montreal chiropractic patients so much!
Everything is connected! Dr. Hoang's Chiropractic Clinic knows this to be true! Researchers suggest that tinnitus may be improved when cervical spine disorders are helped. 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 Montreal friend? Dr. Hoang's Chiropractic Clinic offers gentle chiropractic care to help them both potentially! Montreal chiropractic may help.
Osteoporosis and Obesity – The Link
It’s usually thought that osteoporosis occurs in thin people. Dr. Hoang's Chiropractic Clinic 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 control bone metabolism. (7) Now, that’s new news. All of us Montreal folks – thin and overweight – must be attentive of osteoporosis risk and how to prevent it.
If any of these topics affect you or a Montreal loved one, schedule a Montreal chiropractic appointment today with Dr. Hoang's Chiropractic Clinic. What a great first step toward relief!