Back pain and Memory. Back pain and cognition. Is there a relationship?
Ask any Millville back pain sufferer who’s had the pain
for some time, and you will hear just how the mind and memory just
do not seem to function like normal when pain is on the mind. Wilson Family Chiropractic understands. Back pain specialists like yours at Wilson Family Chiropractic understand this connection. Pain alters
the brain and its memory function. Chiropractic care works to decrease
the pain, and Wilson Family Chiropractic may suggest some curcumin to aid
in the pain relief…and memory and cognition recovery.
CURCUMIN FOR MEMORY ISSUES
Chronic pain sufferers know
that their pain affects their quality of life. It slows them
down. It holds them back. They also have stress because
of their chronic pain and non-pain-related issues
which aggravates their symptoms. It’s a nasty
cycle. These pain and stress feelings as well as emotions,
learning, and memory are processed by the hippocampus.
Neuropathic pain impacts the nervous system, and hippocampal
neurogenesis, its growth and development of nervous tissue, is exacerbated
by stress. (1) To push back against this negative effect on
the nervous system, researchers are looking to
nutrients like curcumin. Curcumin eased chronic pain
and improved cognitive impairment and memory deficit associated
with long-term sciatic nerve constriction. Researchers describe
how hippocampal neurogenesis and synaptic plasticity
improvements may be thanked, so we’ll just do
that (and be grateful that researchers know the
process!) instead of working to totally understand them
ourselves. (2) Wilson Family Chiropractic treats many Millville
leg pain patients and their pain relief from a compressed and
irritated sciatic nerve. Curcumin may improve both memory and
sciatica!
CURCUMIN FOR SCIATICA
There is convincing
evidence that curcumin has an important part in the
treatment of pathological pain stemming from sciatic nerve injury,
neuropathy and such. (3) Current drugs for acute pain (opioids,
NSAIDs, acetaminophen and such) help but come with side-effects
(renal, liver, cardiovascular, gastrointestinal) and have a
potential for abuse. This stimulated some researchers
to study curcumin more. Curcumin is reported
to have anti-inflammatory and analgesic pain-reducing effects…without the
side-effects. (4) Other researchers found that nanocurcumin (a
soluble form of curcumin) ended pain-related behavior, decreased
inflammatory markers and improved memory deficient and spatial
learning in chronically constricted rats. (5) Curcumin may be appropriate
for your Millville back pain condition, too. Wilson Family Chiropractic will explore this with you at your next Millville chiropractic appointment.
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Listen to this PODCAST
with Dr. James Cox on The
Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he
illustrates the benefit of nutrition in the relieving
treatment of Millville back pain and sciatica in The Cox®
Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.
Make your
Millville chiropractic appointment now. Chiropractic
care for sciatica and chronic-pain-related memory and
cognition problems may be better helped with
the addition of curcumin. Let us discuss it at
your next appointment.
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