Sciatic Leg Pain Relief with Chiropractic – Even After Back
Surgery!
Options for relief of back pain and leg pain are surgical
and non-surgical. Pain reducing chiropractic care is
non-surgical and even post-surgical. A newly published paper
questioned the long-term results of randomized clinical trials of
surgical microdiscectomy for lumbosacral radicular syndrome. A high-volume
spine center collected long-term outcome reports from 246
surgical patients. The review found that 26% of patients experienced re-operation. Further, 35% of patients who related
an unfavorable recovery also had worse back
and leg pain than the 65% who had a better
recovery outcome. The authors summarized that patient selection
for surgery is important to outcomes and explaining
fully the chances for a less than perfect
outcome. (1) It certainly comes down to the right
treatment for the proper condition as well as having realistic
expectations by all involved. We know there is a place for
conservative care and surgical care. We work with great
local spine surgeons for those patients requiring their skills.
For one patient who had spinal surgery for cauda equina
syndrome, chiropractic care alleviated symptoms she experienced
after that surgery - low back pain and radicular leg pain – as well as
reduced her opioid medication use and improved
her low limb function. (2) Luckily, there is rising
interest in the part spinal manipulation plays in easing low back pain symptoms following lumbar spine
surgery, a condition that used to be called “failed back
surgical syndrome” and today is more readily referred to as
“persistent spinal pain syndrome” or “post-surgical continued pain syndrome”
(PSCP). (3) Whatever it’s termed, it’s
spine-related pain that remains or occurs after spine surgery.
Cox® Technic spinal manipulation utilized at Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC is garnering notice for its use and its successful
pain-relieving clinical outcome publication. In a study of 69 PSCP
patients, 81% showed better than 50% reduction
in pain levels with Cox® Technic. Two years later, 78% had continued
pain relief of greater than 50%. (4) Non-surgical chiropractic
care at Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC is relieving for many La Grande back and sciatic leg pain sufferers without and even
after back surgery!
Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. William Hoffman on The Back
Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he describes
relieving treatment of back pain and sciatic leg pain with the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.
La Grande CHIROPRACTIC TIP OF THE
MONTH: Nutrition’s Role in Cervical Spondylotic Myelopathy
The most common cause of La Grande myelopathy in the
cervical spine is cervical spondylosis. Due to chronic compression of the spine
cord and its resulting neurological disability in sufferers 55 years of age and
over, cervical spondylosis decreases sufferers’ quality of life.
Researchers wanting to help patients with this condition also
want to find answers. Does nutrition play a
role in cervical myelopathy’s care, its development, and its influence on
surgical outcomes? In one review of 5835 papers of which 44 were pertinent,
poorer recoveries physically and mentally as well as
complications after surgery were seen in obese patients. An unbalanced diet,
history of alcohol abuse, and malnourishment were linked to
lower post-operative outcomes, leading the researchers to state
that nutrition may have a significant role in optimizing
the surgical outcome in degenerative cervical myelopathy patients. (5)
One beneficial nutritional approach for cervical myelopathy is olive extract as
it is documented to suppress inflammation and reduce
oxidative stress and thereby safeguard cervical spondylotic
myelopathy. (6) Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC is prepared to talk about this
condition and share chiropractic’s role in examining, diagnosing,
and managing cervical myelopathy.
CONTACT Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC
Happy New Year! We look forward to taking
care of you in 2022!
Make your next La Grande chiropractic
appointment today. We treat sciatica non-surgically and
post-surgically and understand the nuances of cervical spine
myelopathy well and see that nutrition is an
important piece of its treatment plan. See you soon!