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December 2021 Healthy News from Manahawkin Chiropractic Center

The Manahawkin chiropractic manipulation and mobilization show benefit for relief of cervicogenic headache as an option to surgery for its relief.
 
CERVICOGENIC HEADACHE – Surgery or Manipulation?

What sounds good to you? Most Manahawkin cervicogenic headache sufferers often would like to try a non-surgical approach before a surgical one. Cervicogenic headache is pain that begins 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 who haven’t responded 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 DRG - is being performed, seeking a “successful outcome” of at least 50% pain relief at 6 months after surgery. (3) Chiropractic uses non-surgical approaches like manipulation and mobilization. These are many times effective for the relief or improvement of cervicogenic headache or reduction of 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 described how gentle, Cox® Technic treatment produced relief. (6) Your chiropractor delivers gentle, safe, non-surgical spinal manipulation for Manahawkin neck pain and related headache.

Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. David Kulla on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he explains his relieving treatment of neck pain and headache with the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.

Manahawkin Chiropractic Center presents new research on the benefit of chondroitin sulfate for the prevention of diabetic osteoporosis and support of bone health. 

Manahawkin CHIROPRACTIC TIP OF THE MONTH: Chondroitin Sulfate for Bone Health and Relief of Diabetic Osteoporosis

The benefits of chondroitin sulfate keep coming! The latest information reveals its influence on diabetes and diabetic osteoporosis. Diabetic osteoporosis is linked to morbidity and disability in its sufferers. New rat studies revealed some promising help. The antioxidative, anti-inflammatory, anti-osteoarthritis and hypoglycemic effects of chondroitin sulfate were documented after 8 weeks of oral administration that improved the symptoms of diabetes, decreased blood glucose, elevated bone mineral density, repaired bone morphology, and reduced femoral osteoclasts and tibia adipocyte numbers among other things. All this prompted the researchers to deduce that chondroitin sulfate can efficiently avert bone loss caused by diabetes. (7) A follow-up study revealed similar outcomes. After administering chondroitin sulfate for 10 weeks, researchers documented signs of bone loss prevention, blood glucose reduction, symptom reduction, bone mineral density increase, bone microstructure improvement, bone marrow adipocyte number decrease, and oxidative stress alleviation. (8) The rat studies elucideated 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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