December 2020 Healthy News from Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers Help for Depression and Calf Cramps
“It’s the most wonderful time of the year…” or so the song goes. Whether it’s because of being 2020 or having normal holiday stress, the wonderful-ness of this time of year might not be so wonderful for you. Symptoms of depression like high cortisol & adrenalin, agitation, anxiety and insomnia are reportedly owing to an overactive sympathetic nervous system. A new study on the effect of chiropractic and spinal manipulation along with vagal nerve stimulation announced some encouraging news. These approaches may well be positive treatment options for depression through the regulation of the autonomic nervous system which chiropractic care and spinal manipulation do at the peripheral nervous system level and spread to the central nervous system. The parasympathetic system thereby is able to counterbalance the sympathetic system while vagal stimulation releases neurotrophines known for being essential for anti-depressive therapies’ effectiveness. (1) What is all this really saying? Come in for a Baton Rouge chiropractic visit for Baton Rouge back pain and neck pain relief and other spine related issues. Leave with a little more cheer. For this wonderful time of year, we want a happy Santa…and a happy you!
Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. James Cox, chiropractic back pain specialist and developer of the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management, on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he detailed effects of spinal manipulation on the immune system and things it impacts like depression.
Baton Rouge CHIROPRACTIC TIP OF THE MONTH: Electrical Stimulation for Calf Cramps
Calf cramps are painful! Back pain sufferers with lumbar spinal stenosis or lumbar disc herniation often get calf cramps, interrupting good sleep and daily lives. Neuromuscular electrical stimulation of the calf muscles prone to cramps reduced cramping. Just 25% of patient maximum tolerated stimulation intensity helped! It does not take much. 55% and 85% were effective, too. The reduction in cramps was linked to an increase in cramp threshold frequency, too. A bonus! (2) This new study confirmed what a 2018 study discovered as well. (3) If calf cramps bother you, let us know at your next chiropractic visit. Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers has a treatment plan for them!
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Schedule your next Baton Rouge chiropractic appointment today with Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers. With much gratitude, we wish you a most wonderful holiday season!