Sciatic Leg Pain Relief with Chiropractic – Even After Back
Surgery!
Options for relief of back pain and leg pain are surgical
and non-surgical. Relieving chiropractic care is
non-surgical and even post-surgical. A recent published paper
questioned the long-term results of randomized clinical trials of
surgical microdiscectomy for lumbosacral radicular syndrome. A high-volume
spine center gathered long-term outcome reports from 246
surgical patients. The review discovered that 26% of patients had
a re-operation. Further, 35% of patients who related
a negative recovery also had worse back
and leg pain than the 65% who reported a better
recovery outcome. The authors concluded that patient selection
for surgery is important to outcomes and explaining
fully the chances for a less than perfect
outcome. (1) It surely comes down to the right
treatment for the right condition as well as having realistic
expectations for all involved. We know there is a place for
conservative care and surgical care. We work with talented
local spine surgeons for those patients needing their skills.
For one patient who had spinal surgery for cauda equina
syndrome, chiropractic care eased symptoms she had
after that surgery - low back pain and radicular leg pain – and
reduced her opioid medication use and bettered
her low limb function. (2) Fortunately, there is growing
interest in the role of spinal
manipulation therapy for low back pain symptoms following lumbar spine
surgery, a condition that used to be called “failed back
surgical syndrome” and today is more often referred to as
“persistent spinal pain syndrome” or “post-surgical continued pain syndrome”
(PSCP). (3) Whatever it is termed, it is
spine-related pain that remains or occurs after spine surgery.
Cox® Technic spinal manipulation used at OrthoIllinois Chiropractic is gaining
momentum in its use and its successful
pain-relieving clinical outcome publication. In a study of 69 PSCP
patients, 81% demonstrated greater than 50% reduction
in pain levels with Cox® Technic. Two years later, 78% had continued
pain relief of greater than 50%. (4) Non-surgical chiropractic
care at OrthoIllinois Chiropractic is relieving for many McHenry back and sciatic leg pain sufferers without and even
post-surgically!
Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. William Hoffman on The Back
Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he describes
relieving treatment of back pain and sciatic leg pain with the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.
McHenry CHIROPRACTIC TIP OF THE
MONTH: Nutrition’s Role in Cervical Spondylotic Myelopathy
The most usual cause of McHenry myelopathy in the
cervical spine is cervical spondylosis. Due to chronic compression of the spine
cord and its resulting neurological disability in sufferers 55 years of age and
over, cervical spondylosis decreases sufferers’ quality of life.
Researchers wanting to help patients with this condition also
want to have some answers for them. Does nutrition play a
role in cervical myelopathy’s care, its development, and its influence on
surgical outcomes? In one review of 5835 papers of which 44 were pertinent,
poorer recoveries physically and mentally as well as
complications after surgery were seen in obese patients. An unbalanced diet,
history of alcohol abuse, and malnourishment were linked to
reduced post-operative outcomes, leading the researchers to state
that nutrition may have a significant role in enhancing
the surgical outcome for degenerative cervical myelopathy patients. (5)
One beneficial nutritional approach for cervical myelopathy is olive extract as
it is documented to suppress inflammation and reduce
oxidative stress and thereby protect cervical spondylotic
myelopathy. (6) OrthoIllinois Chiropractic is prepared to discuss this
condition and share chiropractic’s role in examining, diagnosing,
and managing cervical myelopathy.
CONTACT OrthoIllinois Chiropractic
Happy New Year! We are looking forward to taking
care of you in 2022!
Schedule your next McHenry chiropractic
appointment today. We treat sciatic leg pain non-surgically and
post-surgically and comprehend the nuances of cervical spine
myelopathy well and see that nutrition is an
important piece of its treatment plan. See you soon!
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