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January 2022 Healthy News from OrthoIllinois Chiropractic Sciatic Leg Pain Relief and Cervical Spine Myelopathy Nutrition

The McHenry 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 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 had a re-operation. Further, 35% of patients who related a negative recovery also had worse back and leg pain than the 65% who reported a better recovery outcome. The authors concluded that patient selection for surgery is important to outcomes and explaining fully the chances for a less than perfect outcome. (1) It surely comes down to the right treatment for the right condition as well as having realistic expectations for 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 eased symptoms she had after that surgery - low back pain and radicular leg pain – and reduced her opioid medication use and bettered her low limb function(2) Fortunately, there is growing interest in the role of spinal manipulation therapy for low back pain symptoms following lumbar spine surgery, a condition that used to be 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 is spine-related pain that remains or occurs after spine surgery. Cox® Technic spinal manipulation used at OrthoIllinois Chiropractic is gaining momentum in its use and its successful pain-relieving clinical outcome publication. In a study of 69 PSCP patients, 81% demonstrated greater than 50% reduction in pain levels with Cox® Technic. Two years later, 78% had continued pain relief of greater than 50%. (4) Non-surgical chiropractic care at OrthoIllinois Chiropractic is relieving for many McHenry 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 describes relieving treatment of back pain and sciatic leg pain with the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.

 
OrthoIllinois Chiropractic presents the nutritional factors in cervical spine myelopathy in its development and management. 

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

The most usual cause of McHenry 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 wanting 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 as well as 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 state that nutrition may have 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) OrthoIllinois Chiropractic is prepared to discuss this condition and share 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 McHenry chiropractic appointment today. We treat sciatic leg pain non-surgically and post-surgically and comprehend the nuances of cervical spine myelopathy well and see that nutrition is an important piece of its treatment plan. See you soon!

 

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