December 2021 Healthy News from Moriarty Chiropractic

Which would you choose? Most Nashua cervicogenic headache sufferers often would like to try a non-surgical approach before a surgical one. Cervicogenic headache is pain that starts in the neck and is sensed to be in the head or face. Decreased neck range of motion is common. (1) Medicine offers 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 performed, striving for a “successful outcome” of at least 50% pain relief at 6 months after surgery. (3) Chiropractic uses non-surgical approaches like manipulation and mobilization. These are many times 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 found that both had similar effects on disability, pain, global rating of change, and cervical range of motion. (5) One case report of a patient suffering with cervicogenic headache along with a lower cervical disc herniation described how gentle, Cox® Technic treatment produced relief. (6) Your chiropractor offers gentle, safe, non-surgical spinal manipulation for Nashua 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 associated with morbidity and disability in its subjects. New rat studies showed 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 infer that chondroitin sulfate can efficiently prevent bone loss brought on by diabetes. (7) A follow-up study revealed similar outcomes. After administering chondroitin sulfate for 10 weeks, researchers documented signs of bone loss prevention, blood glucose drop, symptom decrease, bone mineral density increase, bone microstructure improvement, bone marrow adipocyte number reduction, and oxidative stress lessening. (8) The rat studies illuminated the potential for human benefit. Chondroitin sulfate’s benefits for back pain, disc health, and bone health support our inclusion of nutrition in the chiropractic treatment plan!

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