January 2022 Healthy News from Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka Sciatic Leg Pain Relief and Cervical Spine Myelopathy Nutrition

The Sitka chiropractic relieving treatment for sciatic leg pain works non-surgically and post-surgically for many sufferers.

Sciatic Leg Pain Relief with Chiropractic – Even After Back Surgery!

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 recent published paper questioned the long-term results 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 discovered that 26% of patients experienced re-operation. Further, 35% of patients who reported 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 important to outcomes and explaining fully the chances for a less favorable outcome. (1) It surely comes down to the proper treatment for the proper condition as well as having realistic expectations by all involved. We know there is a place for conservative care and surgical care. We work with talented local spine surgeons for those patients needing their skills. For one patient who had spinal surgery for cauda equina syndrome, chiropractic care relieved symptoms she experienced after that surgery - low back pain and radicular leg pain – as well as reduced her opioid medication use and bettered her low limb function. (2) Fortunately, there is growing interest in the part spinal manipulation plays in easing low back pain symptoms following lumbar spine surgery, a condition that was formerly called “failed back surgical syndrome” and today is more often referred to as “persistent spinal pain syndrome” or “post-surgical continued pain syndrome” (PSCP). (3) Whatever it is termed, it’s spine-related pain that remains or occurs after spine surgery. Cox® Technic spinal manipulation used at Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka is gaining momentum in its use and its successful pain-relieving clinical outcome publication. In a study of 69 PSCP patients, 81% showed better 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 Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka is relieving for many Sitka 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.

Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka shares the nutritional factors in cervical spine myelopathy in its development and management.

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

The most usual cause of Sitka 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 decreases sufferers’ quality of life. Researchers desiring 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 pertinent, poorer recoveries physically and mentally and complications after surgery were seen in obese patients. An unbalanced diet, history of alcohol abuse, and malnourishment were linked to reduced post-operative outcomes, leading the researchers to explain that nutrition may play a significant role in enhancing the surgical outcome for 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) Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka is prepared to discuss 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!

Schedule your next Sitka chiropractic appointment today. We treat sciatic leg pain non-surgically and post-surgically and comprehend the nuances of cervical spine myelopathy enough to see that nutrition is an essential piece of its treatment plan. See you soon!