Oxford Leg Pain and Memory Benefit from Curcumin
Memory and back pain. Cognition and back pain. Is there a relationship? Ask any Oxford back pain sufferer who’s 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 in play. Satterwhite Chiropractic gets it. Back pain specialists like yours at Satterwhite Chiropractic understand this connection. Pain disturbs the brain and its memory function. Chiropractic care works to reduce the pain, and Satterwhite Chiropractic 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 because of their chronic pain and non-pain-related issues which worsens 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 push back against this negative effect on the nervous system, researchers are studying nutrients like curcumin. Curcumin eased 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 thanked, so we’ll just thank them (and be grateful that researchers know the process!) instead of working to totally understand them ourselves. (2) Satterwhite Chiropractic treats many Oxford leg pain patients and their pain relief due to a compressed and irritated sciatic nerve. Curcumin may improve both memory and sciatica!
CURCUMIN FOR SCIATICA
There is compelling evidence that curcumin has an important role 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 have a potential for abuse. This stimulated 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 found 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 Oxford back pain condition, too. Satterwhite Chiropractic will explore this with you at your next Oxford 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 describes the benefit of nutrition in the relieving treatment of Oxford back pain and sciatica in The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.
Schedule your Oxford chiropractic appointment soon. Chiropractic care for sciatic leg pain and chronic-pain-related memory and cognition problems may be better managed by adding curcumin. Let us talk about it at your next appointment.
