December 2021 Healthy News from Chiropractic Solutions
What sounds good to you? Most San Jose cervicogenic headache sufferers often would like to try a non-surgical option before a surgical one. Cervicogenic headache is pain that begins in the neck and is sensed to be in the head or face. Decreased range of motion in the neck is typical. (1) Medicine proposes surgical options. One is the removal of one or two cervical discs in patients who haven’t responded to prior treatments that was shown to result in 63%/64% of unilateral/bilateral cervicogenic headache relief or improvement at 19.8 and 25.5 months. (2) Another surgical approach - pulsed radiofrequency ablation of the C2 dorsal root ganglion - is being done, striving for a “successful outcome” of at least 50% pain relief at 6 months post-surgery. (3) Chiropractic uses non-surgical approaches like manipulation and mobilization. These are often effective in relieving or improving cervicogenic headache or reducing symptoms when compared to control subjects. (4) A study assessing the effectiveness of manipulation versus mobilization to relieve cervicogenic headache reported that both had similar effects on disability, pain, global rating of change, and cervical range of motion. (5) One case report of a patient who suffered with cervicogenic headache as well as a lower cervical disc herniation detailed how gentle, Cox® Technic treatment produced relief. (6) Your chiropractor delivers gentle, safe, non-surgical spinal manipulation for San Jose neck pain and related headache.
Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. David Kulla on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he explains his pain reducing treatment of neck pain and headache with the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.
The benefits of chondroitin sulfate keep being documented! The latest work involves its influence on diabetes and diabetic osteoporosis. Diabetic osteoporosis is linked to morbidity and disability in its sufferers. New rat studies revealed some promising help. The antioxidative, anti-inflammatory, anti-osteoarthritis and hypoglycemic effects of chondroitin sulfate were seen after 8 weeks of oral administration that bettered the symptoms of diabetes, reduced blood glucose, increased bone mineral density, restored bone morphology, and reduced femoral osteoclasts and tibia adipocyte numbers among other benefits. All this prompted the researchers to deduce that chondroitin sulfate can effectively prevent bone loss caused by diabetes. (7) A follow-up study found similar outcomes. After administering chondroitin sulfate for 10 weeks, researchers documented signs of bone loss prevention, blood glucose reduction, symptom decrease, bone mineral density elevation, bone microstructure improvement, bone marrow adipocyte number drop, and oxidative stress easing. (8) The rat studies elucideated the potential for human benefit. Chondroitin sulfate’s benefits for back pain, disc health, and bone health support our discussion of the importance of nutrition in the chiropractic treatment plan!
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