Back pain and Memory. Back pain and cognition. Is there a link?
Ask any Ashburn back pain sufferer who’s had the pain
for some time, and you will hear just how the mind and memory just
don’t seem to function like normal when pain is in
play. Poulin Chiropractic of Herndon and Ashburn gets it. Back pain specialists like yours at Poulin Chiropractic of Herndon and Ashburn understand this connection. Pain affects
the brain and its memory function. Chiropractic care works to reduce
the pain, and Poulin Chiropractic of Herndon and Ashburn 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 affects their quality of life. It slows them
down. It holds them back. They also have stress because
of their chronic pain and non-pain-related issues
which worsens their symptoms. It’s a nasty
cycle. These pain and stress feelings alongside emotions,
learning, and memory are processed by the hippocampus.
Neuropathic pain affects the nervous system, and hippocampal
neurogenesis, its growth and development of nervous tissue, is exacerbated
by stress. (1) To fight this negative effect on
the nervous system, researchers are researching
nutrients like curcumin. Curcumin decreased 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 will just do
that (and be grateful that researchers understand the
process!) instead of working to fully understand them
ourselves. (2) Poulin Chiropractic of Herndon and Ashburn treats many Ashburn
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 has an important part 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 come with 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, decreased
inflammatory markers and enhanced memory deficient and spatial
learning in chronically constricted rats. (5) Curcumin may be suitable
for your Ashburn back pain condition, too. Poulin Chiropractic of Herndon and Ashburn will explore this with you at your next Ashburn chiropractic visit.
CONTACT Poulin Chiropractic of Herndon and Ashburn
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 relieving
treatment of Ashburn back pain and sciatica in The Cox®
Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.
Make your
Ashburn 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’s talk about it at
your next visit.
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