Memory and back
pain. Back pain and cognition. Is there a relationship?
Ask any Toronto back pain sufferer who has had the pain
for a while, and you will hear just how the mind and memory just
do not seem to function like normal when pain is on the mind. Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre understands. Back pain specialists like yours at Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre understand this connection. Pain affects
the brain and its memory function. Chiropractic care works to decrease
the pain, and Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre may suggest some curcumin to aid
in 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 experience stress due to their chronic pain and non-pain-related problems
which worsens their symptoms. It is a vicious
cycle. These pain and stress feelings alongside emotions,
learning, and memory are managed 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 fight this negative effect on
the nervous system, researchers are researching
nutrients like curcumin. Curcumin eased chronic pain
and enhanced cognitive impairment and memory deficit associated
with long-term sciatic nerve constriction. Researchers describe
how hippocampal neurogenesis and synaptic plasticity
improvements may be thanked, so we’ll just thank them (and be grateful that researchers understand the
process!) instead of working to fully get 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 part in the
treatment of pathological pain due to 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 stimulated 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) stopped pain-related behavior, decreased
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.
CONTACT Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre
Listen to this PODCAST
with Dr. James Cox on The
Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he
illustrates the benefit of nutrition in the care of Toronto back pain and sciatica in The Cox®
Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.
Schedule your
Toronto chiropractic appointment today. Chiropractic
care for sciatica and chronic-pain-related memory and
cognition problems may be better managed with
the addition of curcumin. Let us talk about it at
your next appointment.
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