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Sitka Leg Pain and Memory Benefit from Curcumin

Memory and back pain. Back pain and cognition. Is there a relationship? Ask any Sitka 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 function like normal when pain is on the mind. Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka understands. Back pain specialists like yours at Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka understand this connection. Pain affects the brain and its memory function. Chiropractic care works to reduce the pain, and Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka 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 influences their quality of life. It slows them down. It holds them back. They also experience stress due to their chronic pain and non-pain-related problems which aggravates their symptoms. It’s a vicious cycle. These pain and stress feelings alongside 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 aggravated by stress. (1) To combat this negative effect on the nervous system, researchers are looking to nutrients like curcumin. Curcumin decreased chronic pain and improved cognitive impairment and memory deficit associated with long-term sciatic nerve constriction. Researchers explain that hippocampal neurogenesis and synaptic plasticity improvements may be thanked, so we’ll just do that (and be grateful that researchers understand the process!) instead of working to totally get them ourselves. (2) Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka treats many Sitka leg pain patients and their pain relief due to a compressed and irritated sciatic nerve. Curcumin may help both memory and sciatica!

CURCUMIN FOR SCIATICA

There is convincing evidence that curcumin has an important part in the treatment of pathological pain stemming from sciatic nerve injury, neuropathy and the like. (3) Current drugs for acute pain (opioids, NSAIDs, acetaminophen and such) help but also have side-effects (renal, liver, cardiovascular, gastrointestinal) and hold a potential for abuse. This persuaded some researchers to look at curcumin more closely. Curcumin is said to have anti-inflammatory and analgesic pain-reducing effects…without the side-effects. (4) Other researchers found that nanocurcumin (a soluble form of curcumin) stopped pain-related behavior, reduced inflammatory markers and enhanced memory deficient and spatial learning in chronically constricted rats. (5) Curcumin may be appropriate for your Sitka back pain condition, too. Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka will explore this with you at your next Sitka 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 illustrates the benefit of nutrition in the care of Sitka back pain and sciatica in The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.

Make your Sitka chiropractic appointment now. Chiropractic care for sciatica and chronic-pain-related memory and cognition problems may be better helped with the addition of curcumin. Let’s discuss it at your next appointment.

 
Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka shares new research that describes the benefits of curcumin for leg pain reduction and memory improvement in chronic pain sufferers. 
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