La Grande Leg Pain and Memory Benefit from Curcumin
Back pain and Memory. Back pain and cognition. Is there a relationship? Ask any La Grande 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 work like normal when pain is on the mind. Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC gets it. Back pain specialists like yours at Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC understand this connection. Pain affects the brain and its memory function. Chiropractic care works to reduce the pain, and Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC may propose 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 deal with stress due to their chronic pain and non-pain-related issues 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 affects the nervous system, and hippocampal neurogenesis, its growth and development of nervous tissue, is exacerbated 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 associated with long-term sciatic nerve constriction. Researchers describe how hippocampal neurogenesis and synaptic plasticity improvements may be acknowledged, so we’ll just do that (and be grateful that researchers understand the process!) instead of working to fully get them ourselves. (2) Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC treats many La Grande 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 convincing evidence that curcumin plays 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 have 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 found that nanocurcumin (a soluble form of curcumin) prevented pain-related behavior, reduced inflammatory markers and enhanced memory deficient and spatial learning in chronically constricted rats. (5) Curcumin may be applicable for your La Grande back pain condition, too. Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC will delve into this with you at your next La Grande 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 relieving treatment of La Grande back pain and sciatica in The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.
Make your La Grande chiropractic appointment today. Chiropractic care for sciatic leg pain and chronic-pain-related memory and cognition issues may be better helped by adding curcumin. Let’s discuss it at your next appointment.
