Healthy News June 2022
The exam for the diagnosis of back pain conditions has a new tool: urine testing! Why? Inflammation. Inflammation can be detected via serum tests like this that test for biomarker activity. The association between inflammation and back pain has been investigated. A rat study documented that, compared to sham treatment, manipulation and mobilization eased sciatic radicular pain by potentially reducing neuroinflammation and slowing nitric oxide synthase expression. (1) Lately, chiropractic researchers have studied specifically the outcome of chiropractic care on levels of the biomarker cytokine called tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-α) via urine tests. Defined as a strong pro-inflammatory cytokine closely associated with intervertebral disc degeneration that may spark other cytokines’ (interleukin-6 or interleukin-1β) reactions as well, TNF-α levels were discovered to be raised in patients with severe sciatica and chronic low back pain compared with milder symptomatic patients and healthy volunteers. Specifically, the urine tests of chronic low back pain patients found significantly higher baseline levels of TNF-α. The good news: These levels were significantly lower after 4-6 weeks of chiropractic care! These levels did not relate to pain intensity or disability. (2) Chiropractic care including spinal manipulation like the gentle form of Cox® Technic Flexion Distraction Decompression your Groton chiropractor uses has been experienced as pain-relieving in a mean of 12 visits and 30 days. (3) Bring your back pain and its related inflammation to Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office!
Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Jeremy Heidt on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he describes his pain-alleviating chiropractic care with the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management of a woman with severe sciatica.
Groton CHIROPRACTIC TIP OF THE MONTH: The Anti-Inflammatory Blueberry
Researchers have described the blueberry as anti-inflammatory as well as anti-obesity, anti-cancer, anti-oxidant, neuroprotective and more. Studies have demonstrated that the blueberry facilitated how nuclear receptors act. (4) More specifically, the anti-inflammatory action of the blueberry was found to slow inflammation by slowing the production of inflammatory factors and improving immunity. The main targets of the blueberry’s anti-inflammatory efforts were TNF, ESR1, AGTR1 and IGF1. (5) Notice TNF is in that list? Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office hopes you like blueberries! They’re good for you, our Groton back pain patient, and all of us.
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