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January 2022 Healthy News from Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation Sciatic Leg Pain Relief and Cervical Spine Myelopathy Nutrition

The Carrolltown 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 results of randomized clinical trials of surgical microdiscectomy for lumbosacral radicular syndrome. A high-volume spine center gathered 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 an unfavorable 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 and informing patients about the chances for a less favorable outcome. (1) It surely comes down to the right treatment for the right condition as well as having reasonable 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 needing their skills. For one patient who underwent 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 bettered her low limb function(2) Luckily, there is growing interest in the role of spinal manipulation therapy for 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 called, it’s spine-related pain that continues or occurs after spine surgery. Cox® Technic spinal manipulation used at Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation is garnering notice for its use and its successful pain-relieving clinical outcome publication. In one study of 69 PSCP patients, 81% demonstrated better 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 Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation is relieving for many Carrolltown 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 describes relieving treatment of back pain and sciatic leg pain with the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.

 
Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation shares the nutritional factors in cervical spine myelopathy in its development and management. 

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

The most common cause of Carrolltown 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 desiring 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 recoveries physically and mentally as well as 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 decrease oxidative stress and thereby safeguard cervical spondylotic myelopathy. (6) Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation is ready 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 are looking forward to taking care of you in 2022!

Schedule your next Carrolltown chiropractic appointment today. We treat sciatic leg pain non-surgically and post-surgically and comprehend the nuances of cervical spine myelopathy well and see that nutrition is an essential piece of its treatment plan. See you soon!

 

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