January 2022 Healthy News from Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office Sciatic Leg Pain Relief and Cervical Spine Myelopathy Nutrition

The Groton 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!

Options for relief of back pain and leg pain are surgical and non-surgical. Relieving chiropractic care is non-surgical and even post-surgical. A newly 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 underwent re-operation. Further, 35% of patients who reported an unfavorable recovery also had worse back and leg pain than the 65% who reported a favorable recovery outcome. The authors concluded that patient selection for surgery is vital to outcomes as well as explaining fully the chances for a less than perfect outcome. (1) It certainly comes down to the right treatment for the right condition as well as having reasonable expectations by all involved. We know there is a place for conservative care and surgical care. We cooperate with talented local spine surgeons for those patients requiring their skills. For one patient who had spinal surgery for cauda equina syndrome, chiropractic care eased symptoms she experienced after that surgery - low back pain and radicular leg pain – and decreased 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 was formerly 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 called, it is spine-related pain that remains or occurs after spine surgery. Cox® Technic spinal manipulation used at Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office is gaining momentum in its use and its successful pain-relieving clinical outcome publication. In one 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 Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office is relieving for many Groton back and sciatic leg pain sufferers without and even after back surgery!

Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. William Hoffman on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he describes relieving treatment of back pain and sciatic leg pain with the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.

 
Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office shares the nutritional factors in cervical spine myelopathy in its development and management. 

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

The most common cause of Groton 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 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 improvements physically and mentally and complications after surgery were seen in obese patients. An unbalanced diet, history of alcohol abuse, and malnourishment were linked to lower 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 protect cervical spondylotic myelopathy. (6) Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office is ready to talk about this condition and share chiropractic’s role in examining, diagnosing, and managing cervical myelopathy.

CONTACT Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office

Happy New Year! We are looking forward to taking care of you in 2022!

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

 

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