January 2022 Healthy News from Vancouver Disc Centers Sciatic Leg Pain Relief and Cervical Spine Myelopathy Nutrition

Surgical and non-surgical options are open to back pain and leg pain sufferers. Pain reducing chiropractic care is non-surgical and even post-surgical. A recent published paper questioned the long-term outcomes 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 found that 26% of patients underwent re-operation. Further, 35% of patients who related a negative recovery also experienced 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 proper treatment for the proper condition as well as having reasonable expectations for all involved. We know there is a place for conservative care and surgical care. We work with great local spine surgeons for those patients needing their skills. For one patient who underwent spinal surgery for cauda equina syndrome, chiropractic care relieved 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 rising 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 readily referred to as “persistent spinal pain syndrome” or “post-surgical continued pain syndrome” (PSCP). (3) Whatever it is called, it’s spine-related pain that continues or occurs after spine surgery. Cox® Technic spinal manipulation utilized at Vancouver Disc Centers is garnering notice for its use and its effective 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 continued pain relief of greater than 50%. (4) Non-surgical chiropractic care at Vancouver Disc Centers is relieving for many Vancouver 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.

 

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

The most common cause of Vancouver 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 relevant, 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 lower post-operative outcomes, leading the researchers to state that nutrition may have a significant role in optimizing the surgical outcome for degenerative cervical myelopathy patients. (5) One beneficial nutritional approach for cervical myelopathy is olive extract as it is found to suppress inflammation and reduce oxidative stress and thereby safeguard cervical spondylotic myelopathy. (6) Vancouver Disc Centers is ready to talk about 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 Vancouver chiropractic appointment today. We treat sciatic leg pain non-surgically and post-surgically and understand the nuances of cervical spine myelopathy well and see that nutrition is an essential piece of its treatment plan. See you soon!