December 2021 Healthy News from Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre
Which would you choose? Most Toronto cervicogenic headache sufferers often would like to try a non-surgical option before a surgical one. Cervicogenic headache is pain that starts in the neck and is perceived to be in the head or face. Decreased range of motion in the neck is typical. (1) Medicine offers surgical options. One is removing one or two cervical discs in patients unresponsive to previous treatments resulting 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 dorsal root ganglion - is being performed, striving for 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 for the relief of cervicogenic headache found that both had comparable effects on disability, pain, global rating of change, and cervical range of motion. (5) A case report of a patient who suffered with cervicogenic headache as well as a lower cervical disc herniation explained how gentle, Cox® Technic treatment delivered relief. (6) Your chiropractor delivers gentle, safe, non-surgical spinal manipulation for Toronto 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 relieving treatment of neck pain and headache with the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.
The benefits of chondroitin sulfate keep coming! The latest work involves its influence on diabetes and diabetic osteoporosis. Diabetic osteoporosis is linked to morbidity and disability in its sufferers. New rat studies revealed some promising help. The antioxidative, anti-inflammatory, anti-osteoarthritis and hypoglycemic effects of chondroitin sulfate were documented after 8 weeks of oral administration that improved the symptoms of diabetes, decreased blood glucose, increased bone mineral density, restored bone morphology, and decreased femoral osteoclasts and tibia adipocyte numbers among other benefits. All this prompted the researchers to infer that chondroitin sulfate can effectively prevent bone loss caused by diabetes. (7) A follow-up study found similar outcomes. After administering chondroitin sulfate for 10 weeks, researchers found signs of bone loss prevention, blood glucose drop, symptom decrease, bone mineral density increase, 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 discussion of the importance of nutrition in the chiropractic treatment plan!
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