December 2021 Healthy News from Chiropractic Spine Sports And Rehabilitation
What sounds good to you? Most Tonawanda cervicogenic headache sufferers often would like to try a non-surgical option before a surgical one. Cervicogenic headache is pain that starts in the neck and is felt to be in the head or face. Reduced range of motion in the neck is typical. (1) Medicine proposes surgical options. One is removing one or two cervical discs in patients unresponsive to prior treatments that was shown to result in 63%/64% of unilateral/bilateral cervicogenic headache relief or improvement at 19.8 and 25.5 months. (2) Another surgical approach - pulsed radiofrequency ablation of the C2 dorsal root ganglion - is being performed, pursuing a “successful outcome” of at least 50% pain relief at 6 months post-surgery. (3) Chiropractic offers non-surgical approaches like manipulation and mobilization. These are often effective in relieving or improving cervicogenic headache or reducing symptoms when contrasted with control subjects. (4) A study assessing the effectiveness of manipulation versus mobilization to relieve cervicogenic headache reported that both had comparable effects on disability, pain, global rating of change, and cervical range of motion. (5) One case report of a patient who suffered with cervicogenic headache as well as a lower cervical disc herniation detailed how gentle, Cox® Technic treatment produced relief. (6) Your chiropractor offers gentle, safe, non-surgical spinal manipulation for Tonawanda neck pain and related headache.
Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. David Kulla on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he describes his pain reducing treatment of neck pain and headache with the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.
The benefits of chondroitin sulfate keep coming! The latest work involves its influence on diabetes and diabetic osteoporosis. Diabetic osteoporosis is associated with morbidity and disability in its subjects. New rat studies revealed some promising help. The antioxidative, anti-inflammatory, anti-osteoarthritis and hypoglycemic effects of chondroitin sulfate were documented after 8 weeks of oral administration that improved the symptoms of diabetes, lowered blood glucose, increased bone mineral density, repaired bone morphology, and lowered femoral osteoclasts and tibia adipocyte numbers among other benefits. All this provoked the researchers to conclude that chondroitin sulfate can efficiently prevent bone loss brought on by diabetes. (7) A follow-up study revealed similar outcomes. After administering chondroitin sulfate for 10 weeks, researchers documented signs of bone loss prevention, blood glucose drop, symptom reduction, bone mineral density increase, bone microstructure improvement, bone marrow adipocyte number decrease, and oxidative stress lessening. (8) The rat studies illuminated the potential for human benefit. Chondroitin sulfate’s benefits for back pain, disc health, and bone health support our discussion of the importance of nutrition in the chiropractic treatment plan!
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