Memory and back
pain. Back pain and cognition. Is there a link?
Ask any Baton Rouge back pain sufferer who’s had the pain
for some time, and you will hear just how the mind and memory just
don’t seem to work like normal when pain is in
play. Spine & Sports Rehab Center gets it. Back pain specialists like yours at Spine & Sports Rehab Center understand this connection. Pain disturbs
the brain and its memory function. Chiropractic care works to reduce
the pain, and Spine & Sports Rehab Center may suggest some curcumin to foster the pain relief…and memory and cognition improvement.
CURCUMIN FOR MEMORY ISSUES
Chronic pain sufferers know
that their pain affects their quality of life. It slows them
down. It holds them back. They also experience stress because
of their chronic pain and non-pain-related issues
which worsens their symptoms. It is a nasty
cycle. These pain and stress feelings as well as emotions,
learning, and memory are processed by the hippocampus.
Neuropathic pain affects the nervous system, and hippocampal
neurogenesis, its growth and development of nervous tissue, is exacerbated
by stress. (1) To push back against this negative effect on
the nervous system, researchers are researching
nutrients like curcumin. Curcumin reduced chronic pain
and enhanced cognitive impairment and memory deficit linked to long-term sciatic nerve constriction. Researchers explain that hippocampal neurogenesis and synaptic plasticity
improvements may be acknowledged, so we’ll just thank them (and be grateful that researchers understand the
process!) instead of working to totally understand them
ourselves. (2) Spine & Sports Rehab Center cares for many Baton Rouge
leg pain patients and their pain relief from a compressed and
irritated sciatic nerve. Curcumin may help both memory and
sciatica!
CURCUMIN FOR SCIATICA
There is compelling
evidence that curcumin has an important part in the
treatment of pathological pain due to sciatic nerve injury,
neuropathy and the like. (3) Current drugs for acute pain (opioids,
NSAIDs, acetaminophen and such) help but come with side-effects
(renal, liver, cardiovascular, gastrointestinal) and hold a
potential for abuse. This persuaded a few researchers
to study curcumin more. Curcumin is reported
to have anti-inflammatory and analgesic pain-reducing effects…without the
side-effects. (4) Other researchers discovered that nanocurcumin (a
soluble form of curcumin) stopped pain-related behavior, decreased
inflammatory markers and improved memory deficient and spatial
learning in chronically constricted rats. (5) Curcumin may be suitable
for your Baton Rouge back pain condition, too. Spine & Sports Rehab Center will explore this with you at your next Baton Rouge chiropractic appointment.
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Listen to this PODCAST
with Dr. James Cox on The
Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he
describes the benefit of nutrition in the relieving
treatment of Baton Rouge back pain and sciatica in The Cox®
Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.
Schedule your
Baton Rouge chiropractic appointment today. Chiropractic
care for sciatica and chronic-pain-related memory and
cognition problems may be better managed with
the addition of curcumin. Let us discuss it at
your next visit.
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