December 2021 Healthy News from Executive Chiropractic of Iowa
What sounds good to you? Most West Des Moines cervicogenic headache sufferers would likely want to try a non-surgical option 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 removing one or two cervical discs in patients unresponsive to previous treatments that was shown to result 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 dorsal root ganglion - is being done, seeking a “successful outcome” of at least 50% pain relief at 6 months after surgery. (3) Chiropractic offers non-surgical approaches like manipulation and mobilization. These are often effective in relieving or improving cervicogenic headache or reducing symptoms when contrasted with control subjects. (4) A study comparing the effectiveness of manipulation versus mobilization for the relief of cervicogenic headache found that both had comparable effects on disability, pain, global rating of change, and cervical range of motion. (5) A case report of a patient suffering with cervicogenic headache along with a lower cervical disc herniation detailed how gentle, Cox® Technic treatment produced relief. (6) Your chiropractor offers gentle, safe, non-surgical spinal manipulation for West Des Moines neck pain and related headache.
Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. David Kulla on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he describes 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 linked to morbidity and disability in its subjects. New rat studies showed 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, decreased blood glucose, increased bone mineral density, restored bone morphology, and decreased femoral osteoclasts and tibia adipocyte numbers among other things. All this prompted the researchers to deduce that chondroitin sulfate can effectively avert bone loss caused by diabetes. (7) A follow-up study revealed similar outcomes. After administering chondroitin sulfate for 10 weeks, researchers found signs of bone loss prevention, blood glucose reduction, symptom decrease, bone mineral density elevation, bone microstructure improvement, bone marrow adipocyte number decrease, and oxidative stress easing. (8) The rat studies illuminated 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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