December 2021 Healthy News from Cox Chiropractic Medicine Inc
Which would you choose? Most Fort Wayne cervicogenic headache sufferers often would like to try a non-surgical option before a surgical one. Cervicogenic headache is pain that begins in the neck and is felt to be in the head or face. Decreased neck range of motion is typical. (1) Medicine offers surgical options. One is the removal of 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 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 comparing the effectiveness of manipulation versus mobilization to relieve cervicogenic headache reported that both had similar 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 offers gentle, safe, non-surgical spinal manipulation for Fort Wayne 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 pain reducing 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 seen after 8 weeks of oral administration that improved the symptoms of diabetes, decreased blood glucose, increased bone mineral density, repaired bone morphology, and decreased femoral osteoclasts and tibia adipocyte numbers among other benefits. All this provoked the researchers to conclude that chondroitin sulfate can efficiently prevent bone loss brought on by diabetes. (7) A follow-up study revealed similar benefits. After administering chondroitin sulfate for 10 weeks, researchers recorded signs of bone loss prevention, blood glucose decrease, symptom reduction, bone mineral density elevation, bone microstructure improvement, bone marrow adipocyte number drop, and oxidative stress lessening. (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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