August 2019 Healthy News: The Role of Inflammation in Back Pain and The Anti-Inflammatory Potential of Devils Claw

It’s all (well, a lot) about inflammation! Baton Rouge back pain sufferers with acute or chronic pain have an imbalance of pro-inflammatory (TNFA, IL-1B, IL-6, IL-2 and IFN) and anti-inflammatory (IL-1 TA, STNFR2, IL-10) factors. The pro-inflammatory mediators win. They will be greater in back pain patients than the anti-inflammatory ones. And patients like you detect this difference! They will have higher visual analog scale scores for pain. (1)  Even more specifically, the level of lumbar radicular (leg) pain disc herniation patients experience is newly associated with the level of inflammatory marker microRNA-17 seen in their disc’s nucleus pulposus. MicroRNAs modulate neuroinflammatory processes like the one begun when a disc herniates. (2) Inflammation is a part of the disc herniation occurrence. The body’s inflammatory response to spine pain is real. Your Baton Rouge chiropractor recognizes this and helps diminish the inflammatory as well as mechanical factors influencing your Baton Rouge back pain, neck pain, leg pain and arm pain experience.  

Listen to this discussion on care of the herniated disc with Cox® Technic on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as Dr. Jonathon Cerutti shares the success of pain reduction for his patient.  

Devil’s Claw helps reduce inflammation! Traditional medicine has used it for many years for a variety of ailments. The harpagoside compound of Devil’s Claw is noted for its healing activity, especially its role in reducing inflammation. (3) Osteoarthritis responds well to it. In new research, Devil’s Claw reportedly inhibited nitric oxide, inflammatory cytokines (IL-6, IL-1β, and TNF-α), and PGE2 and averted arachidonic acid metabolism and eicosanoid biosynthesis, leading to COX-2 inhibition and decreased inflammation. (4) Your chiropractor knows that reducing inflammation is not a one-pronged approach. The addition of Devil’s Claw to the Baton Rouge chiropractic treatment plan may enhance the inflammation reduction you want to help you attain the pain reduction you desire.

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Baton Rouge back pain brings on inflammation. Herniating a disc brings on inflammation. Baton Rouge chiropractic care at Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers that includes anti-inflammatory Devil’s Claw supplementation may decrease the inflammation and the pain. Schedule your Baton Rouge chiropractic appointment now!