December 2021 Healthy News from Aaron Chiropractic Clinic
Which would you choose? Most Fort Wayne 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 felt to be in the head or face. Decreased neck range of motion is common. (1) Medicine proposes surgical options. One is the removal of one or two cervical discs in patients who haven’t responded to prior treatments resulting 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, seeking a “successful outcome” of at least 50% pain relief at 6 months after surgery. (3) Chiropractic offers non-surgical approaches like manipulation and mobilization. These are many times effective for the relief or improvement of cervicogenic headache or reduction of symptoms when contrasted with control subjects. (4) A study assessing the effectiveness of manipulation versus mobilization for the relief of cervicogenic headache reported that both had comparable 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 detailed how gentle, Cox® Technic treatment delivered relief. (6) Your chiropractor offers gentle, safe, non-surgical spinal manipulation for Fort Wayne 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 relieving treatment of neck pain and headache with the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.
The benefits of chondroitin sulfate keep coming! The latest information reveals its influence on diabetes and diabetic osteoporosis. Diabetic osteoporosis is associated with morbidity and disability in its subjects. 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 improved the symptoms of diabetes, decreased blood glucose, increased bone mineral density, restored bone morphology, and decreased femoral osteoclasts and tibia adipocyte numbers among other things. All this prompted the researchers to infer that chondroitin sulfate can effectively avert bone loss caused by diabetes. (7) A follow-up study revealed similar outcomes. After administering chondroitin sulfate for 10 weeks, researchers found signs of bone loss prevention, blood glucose drop, symptom decrease, bone mineral density elevation, bone microstructure improvement, bone marrow adipocyte number decrease, and oxidative stress alleviation. (8) The rat studies shed light on 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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