Back pain and Memory. Back pain and cognition. Is there a link?
Ask any Buffalo, NY back pain sufferer who’s 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. The Novelli Wellness Center gets it. Back pain specialists like yours at The Novelli Wellness Center understand this connection. Pain affects
the brain and its memory function. Chiropractic care works to reduce
the pain, and The Novelli Wellness Center may suggest some curcumin to foster the pain relief…and memory and cognition improvement.
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 because
of their chronic pain and non-pain-related issues
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 affects the nervous system, and hippocampal
neurogenesis, its growth and development of nervous tissue, is aggravated
by stress. (1) To combat this negative effect on
the nervous system, researchers are researching
nutrients like curcumin. Curcumin reduced chronic pain
and enhanced cognitive impairment and memory deficit linked to long-term sciatic nerve constriction. Researchers explain that hippocampal neurogenesis and synaptic plasticity
improvements may be acknowledged, so we will just do
that (and be grateful that researchers understand the
process!) instead of working to totally understand them
ourselves. (2) The Novelli Wellness Center cares for many Buffalo, NY
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 compelling
evidence that curcumin plays an important role in the
treatment of pathological pain due to sciatic nerve injury,
neuropathy and the like. (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 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) prevented pain-related behavior, decreased
inflammatory markers and enhanced memory deficient and spatial
learning in chronically constricted rats. (5) Curcumin may be suitable
for your Buffalo, NY back pain condition, too. The Novelli Wellness Center will delve
into this with you at your next Buffalo, NY chiropractic appointment.
CONTACT The Novelli Wellness Center
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 Buffalo, NY back pain and sciatica in The Cox®
Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.
Make your
Buffalo, NY chiropractic appointment today. Chiropractic
care for sciatica and chronic-pain-related memory and
cognition issues may be better helped by adding curcumin. Let’s discuss it at
your next appointment.