Vancouver Chiropractic Patients At Risk of Falling May Find Help from Calcium plus Vitamin D Supplementation
“Have you fallen in the last year?”
That’s the best opening question a healthcare person can ask a patient to determine fall risk. (1) From that answer, fall risk issues can be discussed and prevention tips can be shared. Both physical issues of falls as well as nutritional issues play a role. Your Vancouver chiropractor is responsive to fall risk in our Vancouver chiropractic patient population. Vancouver Disc Centers considers the influential physical and nutritional aspects of falls to assist our Vancouver patients.
THE FALL RISK ISSUE
Not a surprise to you or Vancouver Disc Centers, but the aging population is rising. By 2029, folks older than 65 will comprise 20% of the population, and they will be more numerous than folks under 18! Those stats alone are astounding. But think about some of the issues that will come with an aging population. One is fall risk. What adds to the risk of falls? Nutritional status is as it influences frailty and sarcopenia (muscle weakness). One approach to lowering the fall risk is to take care of malnutrition. (2) Vancouver Disc Centers knows nutrition and understands Vancouver fall risk.
WHO CAN DETERMINE FALL RISK?
In 2015, 31% of all U.S. family physician visits were for people over 65 years of age. By 2030, there will be 72 million over-65-year-olds. These folks are living longer and experiencing all sorts of chronic issues and worrying about how to manage them in the healthcare system and how to fund the healthcare they require. Sound familiar? Of course, Vancouver Disc Centers and you all know someone in this set of circumstances today. It is up to the doctors who take care of these patients to help them manage their healthcare issues. These doctors must be equipped to figure out what issues these patients are at risk of experiencing. Falls are one of the big issues facing older adults. (1) Nutritional status must be tackled in order to prevent falls, but how can a doctor distinguish who needs their nutritional status checked to prevent falls? Family physicians are often first line doctors for this task as they see so many patients. Your Vancouver chiropractor is also great at this!
WHAT KIND OF NUTRITION HELPS?
A evaluation of published research studies concerning 16,540 elderly people compared to 16,146 people in control groups revealed that supplementing with calcium plus vitamin D significantly lowered the risk of falls. (3) Bone health is so important! Vancouver Disc Centers is well educated in nutrition and ready to assist our Vancouver chiropractic patients at risk of falling and/or who discover that they are in a state of malnutrition that puts them at risk of falling. Plus, Vancouver Disc Centers offers the gentlest of chiropractic manipulation care to maintain a spine mobile and healthy as possible with Cox Technic!
CONTACT Vancouver Disc Centers
Schedule a Vancouver chiropractic visit today. An evaluation of your risk of fall can be done as necessary. A personalized nutritional plan can be set up to enhance health and reduce the risk of falling. The talk between your Vancouver chiropractor and you at Vancouver Disc Centers will begin with the simple question: “Have you fallen in the past year?” and build from there.
