Back pain and Memory. Cognition and back pain. Is there a relationship?
Ask any Burlington and Hamilton back pain sufferer who has had the pain
for a while, and you will hear just how the mind and memory just
don’t seem to function like normal when pain is on the mind. Spinal Care Clinic gets it. Back pain specialists like yours at Spinal Care Clinic understand this connection. Pain alters
the brain and its memory function. Chiropractic care works to reduce
the pain, and Spinal Care Clinic may suggest some curcumin to foster the pain relief…and memory and cognition improvement.
CURCUMIN FOR MEMORY ISSUES
Chronic pain sufferers recognize
that their pain affects their quality of life. It slows them
down. It holds them back. They also experience stress due to their chronic pain and non-pain-related problems
which aggravates their symptoms. It’s a vicious
cycle. These pain and stress feelings as well as emotions,
learning, and memory are processed by the hippocampus.
Neuropathic pain impacts the nervous system, and hippocampal
neurogenesis, its growth and development of nervous tissue, is exacerbated
by stress. (1) To combat this negative effect on
the nervous system, researchers are studying
nutrients like curcumin. Curcumin reduced chronic pain
and enhanced cognitive impairment and memory deficit associated
with long-term sciatic nerve constriction. Researchers describe
how hippocampal neurogenesis and synaptic plasticity
improvements may be acknowledged, so we’ll just do
that (and be grateful that researchers know the
process!) instead of working to fully get them
ourselves. (2) Spinal Care Clinic cares for many Burlington and Hamilton
leg pain patients and their pain relief from a compressed and
irritated sciatic nerve. Curcumin may help both memory and
sciatica!
CURCUMIN FOR SCIATICA
There is convincing
evidence that curcumin plays an important part in the
treatment of pathological pain stemming from sciatic nerve injury,
neuropathy and the like. (3) Current drugs for acute pain (opioids,
NSAIDs, acetaminophen and such) help but come with side-effects
(renal, liver, cardiovascular, gastrointestinal) and hold a
potential for abuse. This prompted some researchers
to study curcumin more. Curcumin is reported
to have anti-inflammatory and analgesic pain-reducing effects…without the
side-effects. (4) Other researchers discovered that nanocurcumin (a
soluble form of curcumin) prevented pain-related behavior, reduced
inflammatory markers and enhanced memory deficient and spatial
learning in chronically constricted rats. (5) Curcumin may be appropriate
for your Burlington and Hamilton back pain condition, too. Spinal Care Clinic will delve
into this with you at your next Burlington and Hamilton chiropractic appointment.
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Listen to this PODCAST
with Dr. James Cox on The
Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he
illustrates the benefit of nutrition in the care of Burlington and Hamilton back pain and sciatica in The Cox®
Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.
Make your
Burlington and Hamilton chiropractic appointment now. Chiropractic
care for sciatic leg pain and chronic-pain-related memory and
cognition problems may be better helped with
the addition of curcumin. Let us discuss it at
your next appointment.
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