January 2022 Healthy News from Poulin Chiropractic of Herndon and Ashburn Sciatic Leg Pain Relief and Cervical Spine Myelopathy Nutrition
Options for relief of back pain and leg pain are surgical and non-surgical. Relieving chiropractic care is non-surgical and even post-surgical. A newly published paper questioned the long-term results of randomized clinical trials of surgical microdiscectomy for lumbosacral radicular syndrome. A high-volume spine center collected long-term outcome reports from 246 surgical patients. The review discovered that 26% of patients had a re-operation. Further, 35% of patients who related a negative recovery also had worse back and leg pain than the 65% who had a better recovery outcome. The authors concluded that patient selection for surgery is important to outcomes as well as informing patients about the chances for a less than perfect outcome. (1) It surely comes down to the right treatment for the right condition as well as having reasonable expectations by all involved. We know there is a place for conservative care and surgical care. We cooperate with talented local spine surgeons for those patients needing their skills. For one patient who underwent spinal surgery for cauda equina syndrome, chiropractic care alleviated symptoms she had after that surgery - low back pain and radicular leg pain – and decreased her opioid medication use and improved her low limb function. (2) Fortunately, there is growing interest in the role of spinal manipulation therapy for low back pain symptoms following lumbar spine surgery, a condition that was formerly called “failed back surgical syndrome” and today is more readily referred to as “persistent spinal pain syndrome” or “post-surgical continued pain syndrome” (PSCP). (3) Whatever it is called, it’s spine-related pain that remains or occurs after spine surgery. Cox® Technic spinal manipulation utilized at Poulin Chiropractic of Herndon and Ashburn is garnering notice for its use and its successful pain-relieving clinical outcome publication. In a study of 69 PSCP patients, 81% showed better than 50% reduction in pain levels with Cox® Technic. Two years later, 78% had sustained pain relief of greater than 50%. (4) Non-surgical chiropractic care at Poulin Chiropractic of Herndon and Ashburn is relieving for many Ashburn and Herndon back and sciatic leg pain sufferers without and even post-surgically!
Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. William Hoffman on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he details the relieving treatment of back pain and sciatic leg pain with the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.
Ashburn and Herndon CHIROPRACTIC TIP OF THE MONTH: Nutrition’s Role in Cervical Spondylotic Myelopathy
The most usual cause of Ashburn and Herndon myelopathy in the cervical spine is cervical spondylosis. Due to chronic compression of the spine cord and its resulting neurological disability in sufferers 55 years of age and over, cervical spondylosis lowers sufferers’ quality of life. Researchers wanting to help patients with this condition also want to have some answers for them. Does nutrition play a role in cervical myelopathy’s care, its development, and its influence on surgical outcomes? In one review of 5835 papers of which 44 were relevant, poorer improvements physically and mentally and complications after surgery were seen in obese patients. An unbalanced diet, history of alcohol abuse, and malnourishment were linked to reduced post-operative outcomes, leading the researchers to state that nutrition may have a significant role in enhancing the surgical outcome for degenerative cervical myelopathy patients. (5) One beneficial nutritional approach for cervical myelopathy is olive extract as it is documented to suppress inflammation and reduce oxidative stress and thereby safeguard cervical spondylotic myelopathy. (6) Poulin Chiropractic of Herndon and Ashburn is prepared to discuss this condition and present chiropractic’s role in examining, diagnosing, and managing cervical myelopathy.
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Happy New Year! We are looking forward to taking care of you in 2022!
Schedule your next Ashburn and Herndon chiropractic appointment today. We treat sciatica non-surgically and post-surgically and understand the nuances of cervical spine myelopathy enough to see that nutrition is an essential piece of its treatment plan. See you soon!