December 2021 Healthy News from Apple Country Chiropractic
Which would you choose? Most Williamson 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 felt to be in the head or face. Reduced range of motion in the neck 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 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 DRG - is being done, pursuing 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 often effective in relieving or improving cervicogenic headache or reducing symptoms when compared to control subjects. (4) A study comparing the effectiveness of manipulation versus mobilization in relieving cervicogenic headache reported that both had comparable effects on disability, pain, global rating of change, and cervical range of motion. (5) A case report of a patient who suffered with cervicogenic headache as well as a lower cervical disc herniation explained how gentle, Cox® Technic treatment delivered relief. (6) Your chiropractor offers gentle, safe, non-surgical spinal manipulation for Williamson 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 continue to be 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 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 bettered the symptoms of diabetes, lowered blood glucose, increased bone mineral density, restored bone morphology, and reduced femoral osteoclasts and tibia adipocyte numbers among other things. All this prompted the researchers to infer that chondroitin sulfate can effectively prevent bone loss brought on by diabetes. (7) A follow-up study found similar outcomes. After administering chondroitin sulfate for 10 weeks, researchers found signs of bone loss prevention, blood glucose reduction, symptom reduction, bone mineral density elevation, bone microstructure improvement, bone marrow adipocyte number drop, and oxidative stress easing. (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 inclusion of nutrition in the chiropractic treatment plan!
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