January 2022 Healthy News from Johnson Chiropractic 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 outcomes 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 found that 26% of patients underwent re-operation. Further, 35% of patients who reported an unfavorable recovery also experienced worse back and leg pain than the 65% who reported a better recovery outcome. The authors concluded that patient selection for surgery is vital to outcomes and explaining fully the chances for a less favorable outcome. (1) It surely comes down to the proper 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 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) Fortunately, there is rising interest in the part spinal manipulation plays in easing 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 is spine-related pain that continues or occurs after spine surgery. Cox® Technic spinal manipulation utilized at Johnson Chiropractic is gaining momentum in 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 better than 50%. (4) Non-surgical chiropractic care at Johnson Chiropractic is relieving for many Richmond 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.
Richmond CHIROPRACTIC TIP OF THE MONTH: Nutrition’s Role in Cervical Spondylotic Myelopathy
The most common cause of Richmond 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 improvements physically and mentally as well as complications after surgery were seen in obese patients. An unbalanced diet, history of alcohol abuse, and malnourishment were associated with lower post-operative outcomes, leading the researchers to state that nutrition may play 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) Johnson 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 look forward to taking care of you in 2022!
Make your next Richmond 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 essential piece of its treatment plan. See you soon!