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 collected long-term outcome reports from 246
surgical patients. The review found that 26% of patients experienced re-operation. Further, 35% of patients who reported
an unfavorable recovery also had worse back
and leg pain than the 65% who reported a better
recovery outcome. The authors summarized that patient selection
for surgery is vital to outcomes and informing patients about the chances for a less than perfect
outcome. (1) It certainly comes down to the proper
treatment for the proper condition as well as having reasonable
expectations for all involved. We know there is a place for
conservative care and surgical care. We cooperate with talented
local spine surgeons for those patients requiring their skills.
For one patient who underwent spinal surgery for cauda equina
syndrome, chiropractic care relieved symptoms she experienced
after that surgery - low back pain and radicular leg pain – and
decreased her opioid medication use and improved
her low limb function. (2) Fortunately, there is growing
interest in the part spinal manipulation plays in easing low back pain symptoms following lumbar spine
surgery, a condition that was formerly 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’s
spine-related pain that continues or occurs after spine surgery.
Cox® Technic spinal manipulation used at Dr. Hoang's Chiropractic Clinic is garnering notice for its use and its effective
pain-relieving clinical outcome publication. In a study of 69 PSCP
patients, 81% showed greater than 50% reduction
in pain levels with Cox® Technic. Two years later, 78% had sustained
pain relief of greater than 50%. (4) Non-surgical chiropractic
care at Dr. Hoang's Chiropractic Clinic is relieving for many Montreal 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.
Montreal CHIROPRACTIC TIP OF THE
MONTH: Nutrition’s Role in Cervical Spondylotic Myelopathy
The most common cause of Montreal 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 lowers sufferers’ quality of life.
Researchers wanting to help patients with this condition also
want to find answers. 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 and
complications after surgery were seen in obese patients. An unbalanced diet,
history of alcohol abuse, and malnourishment were linked to
lower post-operative outcomes, leading the researchers to state
that nutrition may play 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 safeguard cervical spondylotic
myelopathy. (6) Dr. Hoang's Chiropractic Clinic is prepared to talk about this
condition and share chiropractic’s role in examining, diagnosing,
and managing cervical myelopathy.
CONTACT Dr. Hoang's Chiropractic Clinic
Happy New Year! We look forward to taking
care of you in 2022!
Make your next Montreal 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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