McHenry Chiropractic Spinal Care Treatment Plan: Nutritional Tea!
Drink your way to health? When the chosen drink is tea, it’s quite possible! Skeletal pain arising from aging-related conditions responds nicely to muscle and joint boosters like those in green tea. OrthoIllinois Chiropractic presents nutritional tips like drinking green tea to our McHenry chiropractic patients.
AGING-RELATED SKELETAL, CARTILAGE, AND JOINT DISEASES
With aging come skeletal risks like disc height loss and changes like the two joint and muscle diseases called osteoarthritis and sarcopenia. A new study looked at the interaction of height loss and vertebral fractures in postmenopausal women. The researchers concluded that age rather than the height loss was suggested to be the better method of determining risk of vertebral fracture. (1) Spinal osteoarthritis was linked with stature loss in postmenopausal women, a situation documented to reduce quality of life. (2) Cartilage is the sufferer of these diseases’ inflammatory and degenerative processes. The loss of strength and muscle mass that accompanies sarcopenia requires attention to quantity and quality of skeletal muscle mass. This is where green tea comes into play. Green tea contains catechins that help maintain healthy joints and skeletal muscle by decreasing inflammatory mediators. (3) OrthoIllinois Chiropractic hopes you might enjoy some beneficial green tea!
NUTRITIONAL BENEFITS
Green tea comes in a variety of types. An additional recent article writes that knee osteoarthritis patients were helped by a mixture of curcuminoids, collagen and green tea extract which exhibited anti-inflammatory properties. The researchers suggested that natural ingredients provide a rational role in the care of osteoarthritis. (4) Another natural option: spearmint tea! A report of how spearmint teas influenced knee osteoarthritis discovered that a commercial spearmint tea improved stiffness and physical disability while a spearmint tea brewed from a high-rosmarinic acid (high-rosA) variety significantly reduced pain. (5) Rosmarinic acid is extracted from the woody, perennial herb, rosemary. It is a polyphenolic compound with antioxidant properties. Polyphenols are written to be anti-cancer, anti-tumor cell proliferation, anti-apoptosis (cell death), anti-metastasis, and anti-inflammatory. Rosmarinic acid is found in plant species like the mint. (6) OrthoIllinois Chiropractic is on the lookout for some high-rosA spearmint tea to enhance the McHenry chiropractic treatment plan.
McHenry CHIROPRACTIC CARE
For degenerative skeletal diseases, McHenry chiropractic care at OrthoIllinois Chiropractic is gently relieving. Together with nutrition, exercise, and stress-reduction, OrthoIllinois Chiropractic’s use of Cox Technic benefits spine pain conditions.
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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Peter Meyer on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he describes The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management integration of cervical spine disc herniation.
Make your McHenry chiropractic appointment now. Schedule a tea party soon, too, to drink your way to potentially better knees bothered by osteoarthritis and healthier skeletal and joint systems.
