December 2021 Healthy News from Manahawkin Chiropractic Center
What sounds good to you? Most Manahawkin cervicogenic headache sufferers often would like to try a non-surgical option before a surgical one. Cervicogenic headache is pain that starts in the neck and is sensed to be in the head or face. Reduced range of motion in the neck is common. (1) Medicine proposes surgical options. One is removing one or two cervical discs in patients unresponsive to prior 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, pursuing 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 for the relief or improvement of cervicogenic headache or reduction of symptoms when compared to control subjects. (4) A study assessing the effectiveness of manipulation versus mobilization to relieve cervicogenic headache found that both had similar effects on disability, pain, global rating of change, and cervical range of motion. (5) One case report of a patient who suffered with cervicogenic headache as well as a lower cervical disc herniation explained how gentle, Cox® Technic treatment produced relief. (6) Your chiropractor offers 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.
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 subjects. 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 bettered the symptoms of diabetes, lowered blood glucose, elevated bone mineral density, repaired bone morphology, and lowered femoral osteoclasts and tibia adipocyte numbers among other benefits. All this prompted the researchers to infer that chondroitin sulfate can efficiently avert bone loss brought on by diabetes. (7) A follow-up study found similar benefits. After administering chondroitin sulfate for 10 weeks, researchers found signs of bone loss prevention, blood glucose drop, symptom decrease, bone mineral density elevation, bone microstructure improvement, bone marrow adipocyte number decrease, and oxidative stress lessening. (8) The rat studies shed light on 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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