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January 2022 Healthy News from Wilson Family Chiropractic Sciatic Leg Pain Relief and Cervical Spine Myelopathy Nutrition

The Millville chiropractic relieving treatment for 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. Relieving chiropractic care is non-surgical and even post-surgical. A newly published paper questioned the long-term outcomes 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 underwent re-operation. Further, 35% of patients who related a negative recovery also had worse back and leg pain than the 65% who had a favorable recovery outcome. The authors summarized 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 proper condition as well as having realistic expectations for all involved. We know there is a place for conservative care and surgical care. We work with great local spine surgeons for those patients requiring their skills. For one patient who had spinal surgery for cauda equina syndrome, chiropractic care relieved symptoms she had after that surgery - low back pain and radicular leg pain – as well as decreased her opioid medication use and improved her low limb function(2) Luckily, 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 readily referred to as “persistent spinal pain syndrome” or “post-surgical continued pain syndrome” (PSCP). (3) Whatever it’s termed, it is spine-related pain that remains or occurs after spine surgery. Cox® Technic spinal manipulation utilized at Wilson Family Chiropractic is gaining momentum in its use and its effective 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 sustained pain relief of better than 50%. (4) Non-surgical chiropractic care at Wilson Family Chiropractic is relieving for many Millville 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.

 
Wilson Family Chiropractic shares the nutritional factors in cervical spine myelopathy in its development and management. 

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

The most common cause of Millville 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 find answers. 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 recoveries physically and mentally and complications after surgery were seen in obese patients. An unbalanced diet, history of alcohol abuse, and malnourishment were associated with reduced post-operative outcomes, leading the researchers to explain that nutrition may play a significant role in optimizing the surgical outcome for degenerative cervical myelopathy patients(5) One beneficial nutritional approach for cervical myelopathy is olive extract as it is found to suppress inflammation and reduce oxidative stress and thereby safeguard cervical spondylotic myelopathy. (6) Wilson Family Chiropractic is ready to talk about 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 Millville chiropractic appointment today. We treat sciatica non-surgically and post-surgically and understand the nuances of cervical spine myelopathy well and see that nutrition is an important piece of its treatment plan. See you soon!

 

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