WEEKLY HEALTH UPDATE
Week of: Monday SEPT. 16, 2013
Courtesy of:
John H. Keefe III, D.C.
(918) 663-1111
IN THE NEWS: GENERAL ANESTHESIA: two recent journal articles in the Br J Psychiatry and from INSERM and U. of Bordeaux, France; in vivo studies have shown that “inhaled anesthetic agents can promote amyloid B peptide (AB) peptide oligomerisation and enhance AB-induced neurotoxicity in the Br J Psychiatry. They found that patients older than 50 years who underwent surgery for the first time had nearly a double risk for a dementia, primarily Alzheimer’s, compared to nonanesthesized patients. Medical News Today reported on the U of Bordeaus article summarized their findings that elderly patients exposed to general anesthesia had a 35% higher risk. I found that to be exactly what happened to a close family member after having ‘successful bypass surgery’, within a few years developed severe dementia. Here’s a side-note in the same article that the Mayo clinic reported that children exposed to anesthesia on multiple occasions also had a higher risk of ADHD.
DRUGS: CANNABIS USE IN TEENS LINKED TO IRREPARABLE DROP IN IQ ORLANDO, Florida — Cannabis users who start smoking the drug as adolescents show an irreparable decline in IQ, with more persistent use linked to a greater decline, new research shows. On the other hand, adult-onset cannabis use is not linked to a decline in IQ. "Our results suggest that adolescents are particularly vulnerable to develop cognitive impairment from cannabis and that the drug, far from being harmless, as many teens and even adults are coming to believe, can have severe neurotoxic effects on the adolescent brain," lead investigator Madeline H. Meier, PhD, from Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, told Medscape Medical News
CHIROPRACTIC: CHIROPRACTIC BEST OPTION FOR SACROILIAC JOINT PAIN AND SCIATICA Dysfunction in the sacroiliac joint (SIJ), located in the pelvis, is one of the most common causes of sciatica, resulting in back pain that radiates down the leg and below the knee. Scientists have long questioned what the best treatment option is for patients with SIJ-related leg pain. In a recent study from a European medical journal, researchers compared three treatment options: physical therapy, chiropractic care and cortisone injections. Patients included 51 adults with leg pain associated with the sacroiliac joint. Researchers analyzed the effectiveness of each method after six weeks of selected treatments, and again after 12 weeks. The results for each patient were categorized as either a success or failure, based on relief or worsening of symptoms and average pain scores. The study’s findings revealed that chiropractic care is the superior choice for treating leg pain associated with the SIJ. The success rate for chiropractic adjustments was 72 percent, compared to just 20 percent for physiotherapy and 50 percent for the cortisone injections. Researchers also found that neither physical therapy nor injections resulted in significant pain relief, whereas chiropractic therapy resulted in a significant improvement on pain scores. Due to the success rate and pain reduction of chiropractic therapy, the study authors concluded that chiropractic should be the first treatment of choice in patients with SIJ-related leg pain.
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