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January 2022 Healthy News from New Roads Chiropractic Center Sciatic Leg Pain Relief and Cervical Spine Myelopathy Nutrition

The New Roads chiropractic relieving care of 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 gathered long-term outcome reports from 246 surgical patients. The review found that 26% of patients had a re-operation. Further, 35% of patients who reported a negative recovery also experienced worse back and leg pain than the 65% who had a better recovery outcome. The authors summarized that patient selection for surgery is important to outcomes as well as explaining fully the chances for a less than perfect outcome. (1) It surely comes down to the right 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 underwent spinal surgery for cauda equina syndrome, chiropractic care alleviated symptoms she experienced after that surgery - low back pain and radicular leg pain – and reduced her opioid medication use and bettered 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 is termed, it is spine-related pain that continues or occurs after spine surgery. Cox® Technic spinal manipulation used at New Roads Chiropractic Center is garnering notice for its use and its effective pain-relieving clinical outcome publication. In a study of 69 PSCP patients, 81% demonstrated greater than 50% reduction in pain levels with Cox® Technic. Two years later, 78% had sustained pain relief of greater than 50%. (4) Non-surgical chiropractic care at New Roads Chiropractic Center is relieving for many New Roads 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.

 
New Roads Chiropractic Center shares the nutritional factors in cervical spine myelopathy in its development and management. 

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

The most common cause of New Roads 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 wanting 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 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) New Roads Chiropractic Center 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!

Make your next New Roads chiropractic appointment today. We treat sciatica non-surgically and post-surgically and understand the nuances of cervical spine myelopathy enough to see that nutrition is an essential piece of its treatment plan. See you soon!

 

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