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Sciatica & Mental Stimulation And Dementia
Manage episode 388146255 series 2291021
Purchase Dr. Williams’s book, a perfect educational tool and chiropractic research reference for the daily practitioner, from the Amazon store TODAY!
- Go to Amazon and check our my book called The Remarkable Truth About Chiropractic: A Unique Journey Into The Research. It’s excellent educational resource for you AND your patients. It saves you time putting talks together or just staying current on research. It’s categorized into sections so the information is easy to find and written in a way that is easy to understand for everyone. It’s on Amazon. That’s the Remarkable Truth About Chiropractic by Jeff Williams.
- Then go Like our Chiropractic Forward Facebook page,
- Join our private Chiropractic Forward Facebook group, and then
- Review our podcast on whatever platform you’re listening to
- Last thing real quick, we also have an evidence-based brochure and poster store at chiropracticforward.com
- They say, “Sciatica is a type of pain that is caused by irritation of the sciatic nerve. This nerve travels from the low back down the legs. Sciatica most commonly happens when a disk in your spine gets damaged or worn out and presses on the sciatic nerve.”
- The pain can be sharp and aching. It is often accompanied by numbness, tingling, or shooting pain down the back of one leg. Rarely, sciatica can cause muscle weakness, like having difficulty lifting your foot.
- A medical professional can usually diagnose sciatica by asking about your symptoms and doing a physical examination. For most people, blood tests and imaging such as x-ray or magnetic resonance imaging are not necessary. If you have had cancer, spine infections, or injection drug use; have a new fever; cannot feel your groin area; cannot control going to the bathroom; have trouble urinating; or your leg feels weak, you should see a medical professional right away.
- Most people with sciatica fully recover without any treatment. About one-third of people with sciatica recover within 2 weeks, and three-fourths of people feel better within 3 months. It is hard to predict who will get better and who will still feel pain. Sciatica can come and go. If your sciatica lasts more than 12 weeks, it is a good idea to get reevaluated by a health care professional.
- There are many ways to treat pain related to sciatica. Anti-inflammatory drugs like ibuprofen or naproxen may provide modest, short-term relief. Acetaminophen (Tylenol) can also be helpful for pain. Other prescribed medications such as muscle relaxers, steroids, opioids (eg, tramadol, oxycodone), and gabapentin are not proven to help, and some may have dangerous side effects. Talk with your doctor about what medications are best for you. Maintaining gentle physical activity (eg, walking, light housework) as tolerated is important for recovery. A physical therapist can help to coach you on specific exercises to speed up the recovery process. There is no strong evidence that treatments like back adjustments (eg, from chiropractors), gentle spine stretching (called lumbar traction), or acupuncture work. Doctors sometimes give injections of steroid or numbing medications near the spine to help with pain. These might help relieve pain for a short time, but they do not help to heal sciatica.
- If treatments like physical therapy and pain medications do not help after 4 months, surgery may improve symptoms for some people. But there is a chance that the pain may return even after surgery. Most surgeries for sciatica use small cuts and special tools to remove the damaged part of the spinal disk. This can relieve pressure on the sciatic nerve. Recovery time from sciatica surgery varies among people but generally takes 6 to 12 weeks. While surgery can help, it has risks, including nerve damage and infection.
- It was a longitudinal prospective cohort study
- Used population-based data from the ASPREE Longitudinal Study of Older Persons (ALSOP) for March 1, 2010, to November 30, 2020.
- Community-dwelling individuals in Australia aged 70 years or older who were generally healthy and without major cognitive impairment at enrollment were recruited study
- A total of 19 measures of leisure activities and social networks assessed at baseline were classified using exploratory factor analysis.
- Dementia was adjudicated by an international expert panel according to Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (Fourth Edition) criteria.
- Cox proportional hazards regression examined dementia risk over 10 years, adjusting for education, socioeconomic status, and a range of health-related factors.
- This study included 10,318 participants. Their median age was 73.8 years at baseline, more than half (52.6%) were women, and most self-identified as White
- In adjusted analyses, more frequent engagement in adult literacy activities (eg, writing letters or journaling, using a computer, and taking education classes) and in active mental activities (eg, playing games, cards, or chess and doing crosswords or puzzles) was associated with an 11.0% and a 9.0% lower risk of dementia, respectively.
- To a lesser extent, engagement in creative artistic activities (craftwork, woodwork, or metalwork and painting or drawing) and in passive mental activities (reading books, newspapers, or magazines; watching television; and listening to music or the radio) was also associated with reduced dementia risk.
- In contrast, interpersonal networks, social activities, and external outings were not associated with dementia risk in this sample.
Purchase Dr. Williams’s book, a perfect educational tool and chiropractic research reference for the daily practitioner, from the Amazon store TODAY!
HomeSocial Media Links https://www.facebook.com/chiropracticforward/ Chiropractic Forward Podcast Facebook GROUP https://www.facebook.com/groups/1938461399501889/ Twitter Tweets by Chiro_Forward YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtc-IrhlK19hWlhaOGld76Q iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/chiropractic-forward-podcast-chiropractors-practicing/id1331554445?mt=2 Player FM Link https://player.fm/series/2291021 Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/the-chiropractic-forward-podcast-chiropractors-practicing-through TuneIn https://tunein.com/podcasts/Health–Wellness-Podcasts/The-Chiropractic-Forward-Podcast-Chiropractors-Pr-p1089415/ About the Author & Host Dr. Jeff Williams – Fellow of the International Academy of Neuromusculoskeletal Medicine (FIANM) and Board Certified Diplomate of the American Board of Forensic Professionals (DABFP) – Chiropractor in Amarillo, TX, Chiropractic Advocate, Author, Entrepreneur, Educator, Businessman, Marketer, and Healthcare Blogger & Vlogger
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Sciatica & Mental Stimulation And Dementia
The Chiropractic Forward Podcast: Evidence-based Chiropractic Advocacy
Manage episode 388146255 series 2291021
Purchase Dr. Williams’s book, a perfect educational tool and chiropractic research reference for the daily practitioner, from the Amazon store TODAY!
- Go to Amazon and check our my book called The Remarkable Truth About Chiropractic: A Unique Journey Into The Research. It’s excellent educational resource for you AND your patients. It saves you time putting talks together or just staying current on research. It’s categorized into sections so the information is easy to find and written in a way that is easy to understand for everyone. It’s on Amazon. That’s the Remarkable Truth About Chiropractic by Jeff Williams.
- Then go Like our Chiropractic Forward Facebook page,
- Join our private Chiropractic Forward Facebook group, and then
- Review our podcast on whatever platform you’re listening to
- Last thing real quick, we also have an evidence-based brochure and poster store at chiropracticforward.com
- They say, “Sciatica is a type of pain that is caused by irritation of the sciatic nerve. This nerve travels from the low back down the legs. Sciatica most commonly happens when a disk in your spine gets damaged or worn out and presses on the sciatic nerve.”
- The pain can be sharp and aching. It is often accompanied by numbness, tingling, or shooting pain down the back of one leg. Rarely, sciatica can cause muscle weakness, like having difficulty lifting your foot.
- A medical professional can usually diagnose sciatica by asking about your symptoms and doing a physical examination. For most people, blood tests and imaging such as x-ray or magnetic resonance imaging are not necessary. If you have had cancer, spine infections, or injection drug use; have a new fever; cannot feel your groin area; cannot control going to the bathroom; have trouble urinating; or your leg feels weak, you should see a medical professional right away.
- Most people with sciatica fully recover without any treatment. About one-third of people with sciatica recover within 2 weeks, and three-fourths of people feel better within 3 months. It is hard to predict who will get better and who will still feel pain. Sciatica can come and go. If your sciatica lasts more than 12 weeks, it is a good idea to get reevaluated by a health care professional.
- There are many ways to treat pain related to sciatica. Anti-inflammatory drugs like ibuprofen or naproxen may provide modest, short-term relief. Acetaminophen (Tylenol) can also be helpful for pain. Other prescribed medications such as muscle relaxers, steroids, opioids (eg, tramadol, oxycodone), and gabapentin are not proven to help, and some may have dangerous side effects. Talk with your doctor about what medications are best for you. Maintaining gentle physical activity (eg, walking, light housework) as tolerated is important for recovery. A physical therapist can help to coach you on specific exercises to speed up the recovery process. There is no strong evidence that treatments like back adjustments (eg, from chiropractors), gentle spine stretching (called lumbar traction), or acupuncture work. Doctors sometimes give injections of steroid or numbing medications near the spine to help with pain. These might help relieve pain for a short time, but they do not help to heal sciatica.
- If treatments like physical therapy and pain medications do not help after 4 months, surgery may improve symptoms for some people. But there is a chance that the pain may return even after surgery. Most surgeries for sciatica use small cuts and special tools to remove the damaged part of the spinal disk. This can relieve pressure on the sciatic nerve. Recovery time from sciatica surgery varies among people but generally takes 6 to 12 weeks. While surgery can help, it has risks, including nerve damage and infection.
- It was a longitudinal prospective cohort study
- Used population-based data from the ASPREE Longitudinal Study of Older Persons (ALSOP) for March 1, 2010, to November 30, 2020.
- Community-dwelling individuals in Australia aged 70 years or older who were generally healthy and without major cognitive impairment at enrollment were recruited study
- A total of 19 measures of leisure activities and social networks assessed at baseline were classified using exploratory factor analysis.
- Dementia was adjudicated by an international expert panel according to Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (Fourth Edition) criteria.
- Cox proportional hazards regression examined dementia risk over 10 years, adjusting for education, socioeconomic status, and a range of health-related factors.
- This study included 10,318 participants. Their median age was 73.8 years at baseline, more than half (52.6%) were women, and most self-identified as White
- In adjusted analyses, more frequent engagement in adult literacy activities (eg, writing letters or journaling, using a computer, and taking education classes) and in active mental activities (eg, playing games, cards, or chess and doing crosswords or puzzles) was associated with an 11.0% and a 9.0% lower risk of dementia, respectively.
- To a lesser extent, engagement in creative artistic activities (craftwork, woodwork, or metalwork and painting or drawing) and in passive mental activities (reading books, newspapers, or magazines; watching television; and listening to music or the radio) was also associated with reduced dementia risk.
- In contrast, interpersonal networks, social activities, and external outings were not associated with dementia risk in this sample.
Purchase Dr. Williams’s book, a perfect educational tool and chiropractic research reference for the daily practitioner, from the Amazon store TODAY!
HomeSocial Media Links https://www.facebook.com/chiropracticforward/ Chiropractic Forward Podcast Facebook GROUP https://www.facebook.com/groups/1938461399501889/ Twitter Tweets by Chiro_Forward YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtc-IrhlK19hWlhaOGld76Q iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/chiropractic-forward-podcast-chiropractors-practicing/id1331554445?mt=2 Player FM Link https://player.fm/series/2291021 Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/the-chiropractic-forward-podcast-chiropractors-practicing-through TuneIn https://tunein.com/podcasts/Health–Wellness-Podcasts/The-Chiropractic-Forward-Podcast-Chiropractors-Pr-p1089415/ About the Author & Host Dr. Jeff Williams – Fellow of the International Academy of Neuromusculoskeletal Medicine (FIANM) and Board Certified Diplomate of the American Board of Forensic Professionals (DABFP) – Chiropractor in Amarillo, TX, Chiropractic Advocate, Author, Entrepreneur, Educator, Businessman, Marketer, and Healthcare Blogger & Vlogger
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