Back pain and Memory. Back pain and cognition. Is there a relationship?
Ask any Carrolltown back pain sufferer who has had the pain
for a while, and you will hear just how the mind and memory just
do not seem to work like normal when pain is on the mind. Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation gets it. Back pain specialists like yours at Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation understand this connection. Pain alters
the brain and its memory function. Chiropractic care works to reduce
the pain, and Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation 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 because
of their chronic pain and non-pain-related problems
which worsens their symptoms. It’s a vicious
cycle. These pain and stress feelings alongside 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 looking to
nutrients like curcumin. Curcumin decreased chronic pain
and improved cognitive impairment and memory deficit linked to 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 fully understand them
ourselves. (2) Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation cares for many Carrolltown
leg pain patients and their pain relief from a compressed and
irritated sciatic nerve. Curcumin may help both memory and
sciatica!
CURCUMIN FOR SCIATICA
There is compelling
evidence that curcumin plays an important role in the
treatment of pathological pain due to 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 stimulated a few researchers
to study curcumin more. Curcumin is reported
to have anti-inflammatory and analgesic pain-reducing effects…without the
side-effects. (4) Other researchers discovered that nanocurcumin (a
soluble form of curcumin) ended pain-related behavior, reduced
inflammatory markers and improved memory deficient and spatial
learning in chronically constricted rats. (5) Curcumin may be applicable
for your Carrolltown back pain condition, too. Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation will explore this with you at your next Carrolltown chiropractic visit.
CONTACT Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation
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 Carrolltown back pain and sciatica in The Cox®
Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.
Schedule your
Carrolltown chiropractic appointment now. Chiropractic
care for sciatica and chronic-pain-related memory and
cognition problems may be better managed by adding curcumin. Let’s discuss it at
your next appointment.
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