January 2022 Healthy News from Dr. Hoang's Chiropractic Clinic Sciatic Leg Pain Relief and Cervical Spine Myelopathy Nutrition

The Montreal chiropractic relieving treatment for sciatic leg pain works non-surgically and post-surgically for many sufferers.

Sciatic Leg Pain Relief with Chiropractic – Even After Back Surgery!

Surgical and non-surgical options are open to back pain and leg pain sufferers. Pain reducing chiropractic care is non-surgical and even post-surgical. A recent 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 a negative 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 informing patients about 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 cooperate with great local spine surgeons for those patients needing their skills. For one patient who underwent spinal surgery for cauda equina syndrome, chiropractic care relieved symptoms she had after that surgery - low back pain and radicular leg pain – as well as reduced her opioid medication use and bettered her low limb function. (2) Fortunately, there is rising interest in the part spinal manipulation plays in easing low back pain symptoms following lumbar spine surgery, a condition that was formerly called “failed back surgical syndrome” and today is more often 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 continues or occurs after spine surgery. Cox® Technic spinal manipulation used at Dr. Hoang's Chiropractic Clinic is garnering notice for its use and its effective pain-relieving clinical outcome publication. In a study of 69 PSCP patients, 81% showed greater than 50% reduction in pain levels with Cox® Technic. Two years later, 78% had sustained pain relief of greater than 50%. (4) Non-surgical chiropractic care at Dr. Hoang's Chiropractic Clinic is relieving for many Montreal back and sciatic leg pain sufferers without and even post-surgically!

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.

Dr. Hoang's Chiropractic Clinic shares the nutritional factors in cervical spine myelopathy in its development and management.

Montreal CHIROPRACTIC TIP OF THE MONTH: Nutrition’s Role in Cervical Spondylotic Myelopathy

The most usual cause of Montreal 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 lowers sufferers’ quality of life. Researchers wanting to help patients with this condition also want to have some answers for them. 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 relevant, 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 associated with reduced post-operative outcomes, leading the researchers to state that nutrition may play a significant role in enhancing the surgical outcome in degenerative cervical myelopathy patients. (5) One beneficial nutritional approach for cervical myelopathy is olive extract as it is found to suppress inflammation and decrease oxidative stress and thereby protect cervical spondylotic myelopathy. (6) Dr. Hoang's Chiropractic Clinic is ready to discuss this condition and share chiropractic’s role in examining, diagnosing, and managing cervical myelopathy.

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Happy New Year! We look forward to taking care of you in 2022!

Schedule your next Montreal chiropractic appointment today. We treat sciatica non-surgically and post-surgically and comprehend the nuances of cervical spine myelopathy well and see that nutrition is an essential piece of its treatment plan. See you soon!