Back pain and Memory. Cognition and back pain. Is there a relationship?
Ask any La Grande back pain sufferer who’s had the pain
for a while, and you will hear just how the mind and memory just
don’t seem to function like normal when pain is on the mind. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC understands. Back pain specialists like yours at Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC understand this connection. Pain alters
the brain and its memory function. Chiropractic care works to reduce
the pain, and Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC may suggest some curcumin to foster the pain relief…and memory and cognition recovery.
CURCUMIN FOR MEMORY ISSUES
Chronic pain sufferers know
that their pain influences their quality of life. It slows them
down. It holds them back. They also have 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 as well as emotions,
learning, and memory are processed 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 fight this negative effect on
the nervous system, researchers are studying
nutrients like curcumin. Curcumin eased chronic pain
and improved cognitive impairment and memory deficit associated
with long-term sciatic nerve constriction. Researchers explain that hippocampal neurogenesis and synaptic plasticity
improvements may be thanked, so we will just do
that (and be grateful that researchers know the
process!) instead of working to totally understand them
ourselves. (2) Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC treats many La Grande
leg pain patients and their pain relief from a compressed and
irritated sciatic nerve. Curcumin may help both memory and
sciatica!
CURCUMIN FOR SCIATICA
There is convincing
evidence that curcumin plays an important role in the
treatment of pathological pain stemming from 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 hold a
potential for abuse. This persuaded a few researchers
to study curcumin more. 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) prevented pain-related behavior, decreased
inflammatory markers and improved memory deficient and spatial
learning in chronically constricted rats. (5) Curcumin may be suitable
for your La Grande back pain condition, too. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC will delve
into this with you at your next La Grande chiropractic visit.
CONTACT Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC
Listen to this PODCAST
with Dr. James Cox on The
Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he
describes the benefit of nutrition in the care of La Grande back pain and sciatica in The Cox®
Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.
Schedule your
La Grande chiropractic appointment today. Chiropractic
care for sciatica and chronic-pain-related memory and
cognition issues may be better helped by adding curcumin. Let us talk about it at
your next appointment.