January 2022 Healthy News from Minster Chiropractic Center Sciatic Leg Pain Relief and Cervical Spine Myelopathy Nutrition

The Minster chiropractic relieving care of sciatic leg pain works non-surgically and post-surgically for many sufferers.

Sciatic Leg Pain Relief with Chiropractic – Even After Back Surgery!

Options for relief of back pain and leg pain are surgical and non-surgical. Pain reducing 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 found that 26% of patients had a re-operation. Further, 35% of patients who reported a negative recovery also had worse back and leg pain than the 65% who had a favorable recovery outcome. The authors concluded that patient selection for surgery is important to outcomes as well as explaining fully the chances for a less favorable outcome. (1) It certainly comes down to the proper treatment for the proper condition as well as having realistic expectations by all involved. We know there is a place for conservative care and surgical care. We cooperate with great local spine surgeons for those patients requiring 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 bettered her low limb function. (2) Fortunately, there is growing interest in the part spinal manipulation plays in easing low back pain symptoms following lumbar spine surgery, a condition that used to be called “failed back surgical syndrome” and today is more often referred to as “persistent spinal pain syndrome” or “post-surgical continued pain syndrome” (PSCP). (3) Whatever it is termed, it is spine-related pain that remains or occurs after spine surgery. Cox® Technic spinal manipulation used at Minster Chiropractic Center is gaining momentum in its use and its successful pain-relieving clinical outcome publication. In a study of 69 PSCP patients, 81% showed greater than 50% reduction in pain levels with Cox® Technic. Two years later, 78% had continued pain relief of greater than 50%. (4) Non-surgical chiropractic care at Minster Chiropractic Center is relieving for many Minster back and sciatic leg pain sufferers without and even after back surgery!

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.

Minster Chiropractic Center presents the nutritional factors in cervical spine myelopathy in its development and management.

Minster CHIROPRACTIC TIP OF THE MONTH: Nutrition’s Role in Cervical Spondylotic Myelopathy

The most usual cause of Minster 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 decreases 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 pertinent, 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 lower post-operative outcomes, leading the researchers to state that nutrition may play a significant role in optimizing the surgical outcome in degenerative cervical myelopathy patients. (5) One beneficial nutritional approach for cervical myelopathy is olive extract as it is documented to suppress inflammation and decrease oxidative stress and thereby safeguard cervical spondylotic myelopathy. (6) Minster Chiropractic Center is prepared to talk about this condition and share chiropractic’s role in examining, diagnosing, and managing cervical myelopathy.

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Happy New Year! We look forward to taking care of you in 2022!

Schedule your next Minster chiropractic appointment today. We treat sciatica non-surgically and post-surgically and comprehend the nuances of cervical spine myelopathy enough to see that nutrition is an essential piece of its treatment plan. See you soon!