St Peters Leg Pain and Memory Benefit from Curcumin
Memory and back pain. Back pain and cognition. Is there a relationship? Ask any St Peters back pain sufferer who has had the pain for a while, and you will hear just how the mind and memory just do not seem to work like normal when pain is on the mind. Old Mill Chiropractic gets it. Back pain specialists like yours at Old Mill Chiropractic understand this connection. Pain alters the brain and its memory function. Chiropractic care works to decrease the pain, and Old Mill Chiropractic may propose some curcumin to aid in the pain relief…and memory and cognition improvement.
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 issues which exacerbates their symptoms. It’s a nasty cycle. These pain and stress feelings alongside emotions, learning, and memory are managed by the hippocampus. Neuropathic pain affects the nervous system, and hippocampal neurogenesis, its growth and development of nervous tissue, is exacerbated by stress. (1) To push back against this negative effect on the nervous system, researchers are studying nutrients like curcumin. Curcumin eased 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 acknowledged, so we’ll just do that (and be grateful that researchers understand the process!) instead of working to fully get them ourselves. (2) Old Mill Chiropractic treats many St Peters 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 has an important part in the treatment of pathological pain due to sciatic nerve injury, neuropathy and such. (3) Current drugs for acute pain (opioids, NSAIDs, acetaminophen and such) help but also have side-effects (renal, liver, cardiovascular, gastrointestinal) and have a potential for abuse. This persuaded a few researchers to look at curcumin more closely. 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) ended pain-related behavior, decreased inflammatory markers and enhanced memory deficient and spatial learning in chronically constricted rats. (5) Curcumin may be appropriate for your St Peters back pain condition, too. Old Mill Chiropractic will delve into this with you at your next St Peters chiropractic appointment.
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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 St Peters back pain and sciatica in The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.
Schedule your St Peters chiropractic appointment now. Chiropractic care for sciatic leg pain and chronic-pain-related memory and cognition problems may be better managed with the addition of curcumin. Let us talk about it at your next visit.
