West Des Moines Leg Pain and Memory Benefit from Curcumin
Back pain and Memory. Back pain and cognition. Is there a link? Ask any West Des Moines back pain sufferer who has had the pain for a while, and you will hear just how the mind and memory just don’t seem to work like normal when pain is in play. Executive Chiropractic of Iowa understands. Back pain specialists like yours at Executive Chiropractic of Iowa understand this connection. Pain alters the brain and its memory function. Chiropractic care works to decrease the pain, and Executive Chiropractic of Iowa may suggest some curcumin to foster the pain relief…and memory and cognition recovery.
CURCUMIN FOR MEMORY ISSUES
Chronic pain sufferers know that their pain affects their quality of life. It slows them down. It holds them back. They also experience stress due to their chronic pain and non-pain-related problems which exacerbates their symptoms. It’s a nasty 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 aggravated by stress. (1) To fight this negative effect on the nervous system, researchers are studying nutrients like curcumin. Curcumin decreased chronic pain and improved cognitive impairment and memory deficit linked to long-term sciatic nerve constriction. Researchers explain that hippocampal neurogenesis and synaptic plasticity improvements may be thanked, so we’ll just thank them (and be grateful that researchers understand the process!) instead of working to fully get them ourselves. (2) Executive Chiropractic of Iowa cares for many West Des Moines leg pain patients and their pain relief due to 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 part in the treatment of pathological pain stemming from sciatic nerve injury, neuropathy and such. (3) Current drugs for acute pain (opioids, NSAIDs, acetaminophen and such) help but come with side-effects (renal, liver, cardiovascular, gastrointestinal) and have 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 found that nanocurcumin (a soluble form of curcumin) prevented pain-related behavior, decreased inflammatory markers and enhanced memory deficient and spatial learning in chronically constricted rats. (5) Curcumin may be suitable for your West Des Moines back pain condition, too. Executive Chiropractic of Iowa will explore this with you at your next West Des Moines chiropractic visit.
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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 care of West Des Moines back pain and sciatica in The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.
Make your West Des Moines chiropractic appointment now. Chiropractic care for sciatic leg pain and chronic-pain-related memory and cognition issues may be better helped by adding curcumin. Let us discuss it at your next appointment.
