Memory and back
pain. Cognition and back pain. Is there a relationship?
Ask any West Palm Beach 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 work like normal when pain is on the mind. Chiropractic Care gets it. Back pain specialists like yours at Chiropractic Care understand this connection. Pain alters
the brain and its memory function. Chiropractic care works to reduce
the pain, and Chiropractic Care may propose some curcumin to aid
in the pain relief…and memory and cognition improvement.
CURCUMIN FOR MEMORY ISSUES
Chronic pain sufferers know
that their pain influences their quality of life. It slows them
down. It holds them back. They also deal with stress due to their chronic pain and non-pain-related problems
which worsens their symptoms. It’s a vicious
cycle. These pain and stress feelings alongside emotions,
learning, and memory are managed by the hippocampus.
Neuropathic pain affects the nervous system, and hippocampal
neurogenesis, its growth and development of nervous tissue, is exacerbated
by stress. (1) To fight this negative effect on
the nervous system, researchers are looking to
nutrients like curcumin. Curcumin decreased chronic pain
and improved cognitive impairment and memory deficit associated
with long-term sciatic nerve constriction. Researchers describe
how hippocampal neurogenesis and synaptic plasticity
improvements may be thanked, so we’ll just do
that (and be grateful that researchers understand the
process!) instead of working to totally get them
ourselves. (2) Chiropractic Care treats many West Palm Beach
leg pain patients and their pain relief due to 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 due to sciatic nerve injury,
neuropathy and the like. (3) Current drugs for acute pain (opioids,
NSAIDs, acetaminophen and such) help but also have side-effects
(renal, liver, cardiovascular, gastrointestinal) and have a
potential for abuse. This stimulated a few researchers
to study curcumin more. Curcumin is reported
to have anti-inflammatory and analgesic pain-reducing effects…without the
side-effects. (4) Other researchers found that nanocurcumin (a
soluble form of curcumin) stopped pain-related behavior, reduced
inflammatory markers and enhanced memory deficient and spatial
learning in chronically constricted rats. (5) Curcumin may be appropriate
for your West Palm Beach back pain condition, too. Chiropractic Care will explore this with you at your next West Palm Beach chiropractic visit.
CONTACT Chiropractic Care
Listen to this PODCAST
with Dr. James Cox on The
Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he
describes the benefit of nutrition in the care of West Palm Beach back pain and sciatica in The Cox®
Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.
Make your
West Palm Beach chiropractic appointment now. Chiropractic
care for sciatica and chronic-pain-related memory and
cognition issues may be better helped by adding curcumin. Let’s talk about it at
your next appointment.
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