January 2022 Healthy News from Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries Sciatic Leg Pain Relief and Cervical Spine Myelopathy Nutrition

The Manchester 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!

Surgical and non-surgical options are open to back pain and leg pain sufferers. Pain reducing chiropractic care is non-surgical and even post-surgical. A recent 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 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 than perfect outcome. (1) It certainly comes down to the proper treatment for the proper 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 requiring their skills. For one patient who had spinal surgery for cauda equina syndrome, chiropractic care alleviated symptoms she had after that surgery - low back pain and radicular leg pain – and reduced her opioid medication use and improved her low limb function(2) Fortunately, there is rising interest in the role of spinal manipulation therapy for 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 termed, it is spine-related pain that continues or occurs after spine surgery. Cox® Technic spinal manipulation utilized at Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries is gaining momentum in its use and its successful pain-relieving clinical outcome publication. In a study of 69 PSCP patients, 81% demonstrated better 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 Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries is relieving for many Manchester 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.

 
Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries presents the nutritional factors in cervical spine myelopathy in its development and management. 

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

The most usual cause of Manchester 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 lowers sufferers’ quality of life. Researchers desiring 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 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 explain that nutrition may play a significant role in enhancing 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 reduce oxidative stress and thereby protect cervical spondylotic myelopathy. (6) Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries is ready to discuss 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!

Schedule your next Manchester chiropractic appointment today. We treat sciatica non-surgically and post-surgically and comprehend 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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