Memory and back
pain. Cognition and back pain. Is there a link?
Ask any Manchester back pain sufferer who has had the pain
for some time, and you will hear just how the mind and memory just
do not seem to function like normal when pain is in
play. Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries understands. Back pain specialists like yours at Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries understand this connection. Pain affects
the brain and its memory function. Chiropractic care works to decrease
the pain, and Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries may propose some curcumin to foster the pain relief…and memory and cognition improvement.
CURCUMIN FOR MEMORY ISSUES
Chronic pain sufferers recognize
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 is a nasty
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 combat 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 explain that hippocampal neurogenesis and synaptic plasticity
improvements may be acknowledged, so we will just thank them (and be grateful that researchers understand the
process!) instead of working to totally get them
ourselves. (2) Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries cares for many Manchester
leg pain patients and their pain relief from a compressed and
irritated sciatic nerve. Curcumin may improve both memory and
sciatica!
CURCUMIN FOR SCIATICA
There is convincing
evidence that curcumin plays 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 have a
potential for abuse. This prompted 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 discovered 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 suitable
for your Manchester back pain condition, too. Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries will delve
into this with you at your next Manchester chiropractic visit.
CONTACT Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries
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 Manchester back pain and sciatica in The Cox®
Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.
Schedule your
Manchester chiropractic appointment soon. Chiropractic
care for sciatic leg pain and chronic-pain-related memory and
cognition problems may be better helped with
the addition of curcumin. Let us discuss it at
your next visit.
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