Memory and back
pain. Back pain and cognition. Is there a relationship?
Ask any Sitka back pain sufferer who’s had the pain
for some time, and you will hear just how the mind and memory just
don’t seem to function like normal when pain is on the mind. Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka understands. Back pain specialists like yours at Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka understand this connection. Pain affects
the brain and its memory function. Chiropractic care works to reduce
the pain, and Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka may suggest some curcumin to foster 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 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 alongside emotions,
learning, and memory are processed by the hippocampus.
Neuropathic pain affects the nervous system, and hippocampal
neurogenesis, its growth and development of nervous tissue, is aggravated
by stress. (1) To combat 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 explain that 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) Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka treats many Sitka
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 has 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 also have side-effects
(renal, liver, cardiovascular, gastrointestinal) and hold a
potential for abuse. This persuaded some researchers
to look at curcumin more closely. Curcumin is said
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 Sitka back pain condition, too. Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka will explore this with you at your next Sitka chiropractic appointment.
CONTACT Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka
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 Sitka back pain and sciatica in The Cox®
Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.
Make your
Sitka chiropractic appointment now. Chiropractic
care for sciatica and chronic-pain-related memory and
cognition problems may be better helped with
the addition of curcumin. Let’s discuss it at
your next appointment.