Auburn Chiropractic Newsletter for February 2017

All Benefit when DCs and MDs Work Together

Patient benefit when doctors work together. Dr. Le's Chiropractic & Wellness, L.L.C. is always ready to work with Auburn healthcare colleagues to help a Auburn chiropractic patient! 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 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! Dr. Le's Chiropractic & Wellness, L.L.C. 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, 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) Dr. Le's Chiropractic & Wellness, L.L.C., of course, aims to prevent surgery and recognizes when it is necessary and is ready to refer any Auburn back pain sufferer when it’s time. Count on Dr. Le's Chiropractic & Wellness, L.L.C. for your non-surgical back pain and neck pain care.

Healthy Eating!

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. If you are one of those Auburn 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 Auburn chronic low back pain sufferers isn’t good. The good news is that vitamin D supplementation helps! An better vitamin D level aids to reduce pain intensity and improve function in chronic low back pain patients. (5) Dr. Le's Chiropractic & Wellness, L.L.C. thinks it’s nice that a simple intervention as a nutritional supplement may have such a powerful impact on back pain!

Everything is connected! Dr. Le's Chiropractic & Wellness, L.L.C. knows this to be true! Dr. Le's Chiropractic & Wellness, L.L.C. 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’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 concerns you  or a friend, let’s see what Dr. Le's Chiropractic & Wellness, L.L.C. can do to help! Auburn chiropractic may help.

Osteoporosis and Obesity – The Link

It’s usually thought that osteoporosis happens in thin people. Dr. Le's Chiropractic & Wellness, L.L.C. 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 Auburn folks – thin and overweight – need to be mindful of osteoporosis risk and how to manage it.

If any of these topics affect you or a Auburn loved one, schedule a Auburn chiropractic appointment today with Dr. Le's Chiropractic & Wellness, L.L.C.. What a great first step toward relief!