January 2022 Healthy News from Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers Sciatic Leg Pain Relief and Cervical Spine Myelopathy Nutrition
Surgical and non-surgical options are open to back pain and leg pain sufferers. 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 collected long-term outcome reports from 246 surgical patients. The review found that 26% of patients experienced re-operation. Further, 35% of patients who related a negative recovery also had worse back and leg pain than the 65% who had a better recovery outcome. The authors concluded that patient selection for surgery is vital to outcomes and informing patients about the chances for a less favorable outcome. (1) It surely comes down to the right treatment for the right condition as well as having realistic 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 needing 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) Fortunately, there is rising interest in the role of spinal manipulation therapy for 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 remains or occurs after spine surgery. Cox® Technic spinal manipulation used at Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers is gaining momentum in its use and its successful pain-relieving clinical outcome publication. In one study of 69 PSCP patients, 81% showed greater than 50% reduction in pain levels with Cox® Technic. Two years later, 78% had continued pain relief of greater than 50%. (4) Non-surgical chiropractic care at Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers is relieving for many Baton Rouge 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.
Baton Rouge CHIROPRACTIC TIP OF THE MONTH: Nutrition’s Role in Cervical Spondylotic Myelopathy
The most common cause of Baton Rouge 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 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 pertinent, 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 associated with reduced post-operative outcomes, leading the researchers to state that nutrition may have 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 found to suppress inflammation and decrease oxidative stress and thereby safeguard cervical spondylotic myelopathy. (6) Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers 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!
Schedule your next Baton Rouge chiropractic appointment today. We treat sciatic leg pain 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!