Toronto Leg Pain and Memory Benefit from Curcumin
Memory and back pain. Back pain and cognition. Is there a link? Ask any Toronto back pain sufferer who’s had the pain for some time, and you will hear just how the mind and memory just do not seem to work like normal when pain is in play. Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre gets it. Back pain specialists like yours at Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre understand this connection. Pain alters the brain and its memory function. Chiropractic care works to decrease the pain, and Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre may suggest some curcumin to foster the pain relief…and memory and cognition improvement.
CURCUMIN FOR MEMORY ISSUES
Chronic pain sufferers recognize that their pain affects their quality of life. It slows them down. It holds them back. They also experience stress because of their chronic pain and non-pain-related problems which aggravates their symptoms. It’s a vicious cycle. These pain and stress feelings alongside emotions, learning, and memory are processed by the hippocampus. Neuropathic pain impacts the nervous system, and hippocampal neurogenesis, its growth and development of nervous tissue, is aggravated by stress. (1) To push back against this negative effect on the nervous system, researchers are looking to nutrients like curcumin. Curcumin eased chronic pain and enhanced cognitive impairment and memory deficit associated with long-term sciatic nerve constriction. Researchers explain that hippocampal neurogenesis and synaptic plasticity improvements may be acknowledged, so we’ll just thank them (and be grateful that researchers understand the process!) instead of working to totally understand them ourselves. (2) Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre treats many Toronto leg pain patients and their pain relief from a compressed and irritated sciatic nerve. Curcumin may improve both memory and sciatica!
CURCUMIN FOR SCIATICA
There is compelling evidence that curcumin has 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 come with side-effects (renal, liver, cardiovascular, gastrointestinal) and hold a potential for abuse. This prompted a few researchers to look at curcumin more closely. Curcumin is reported to have anti-inflammatory and analgesic pain-reducing effects…without the side-effects. (4) Other researchers discovered that nanocurcumin (a soluble form of curcumin) ended pain-related behavior, reduced inflammatory markers and enhanced memory deficient and spatial learning in chronically constricted rats. (5) Curcumin may be applicable for your Toronto back pain condition, too. Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre will delve into this with you at your next Toronto chiropractic appointment.
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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 Toronto back pain and sciatica in The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.
Make your Toronto chiropractic appointment soon. Chiropractic care for sciatica and chronic-pain-related memory and cognition problems may be better helped by adding curcumin. Let’s discuss it at your next appointment.
