Layden Chiropractic Treats Back Pain and Its Inflammatory Process
Red. Swollen. Hot. Painful. Signs of inflammation that no Plainville back pain patient desires. Layden Chiropractic offers chiropractic services to reduce back pain by recognizing and addressing any related inflammation.
INFLAMMATION AND BACK PAIN RELATED
How can you deduce if there’s inflammation? Like other issues, researchers search for ways to measure it. To measure inflammation, researchers try to find inflammatory biomarkers, biological markers like tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-α), C-reactive protein (CRP), and interleukin-6, interleukin-1β, that revealed an increase. Researchers have discovered that chronic inflammation increased cytokine production and stimulated pro-inflammatory pathways that may lead to non-specific low back pain. (1) Researchers detected systemic inflammation in chronic LBP and may affect transition from acute to persistent low back pain. Particularly, CRP was discovered to be elevated in acute low back pain patients versus control patients. TNF was greater in back pain patients particularly in patients with depression. (2) Since researchers have already documented that inflammation is tied to back pain, Layden Chiropractic realizes that inflammation must be reduced in order to help reduce Plainville back pain.
HOW TO STOP INFLAMMATION
Well, first, understand what inflammation does. Researchers made use of lipopolysaccharide (LPS) to create intervertebral disc degeneration in trials. They set out to figure out what might potentially decrease the produced back pain that comes with it and/or even prevent the degeneration initially so we humans don’t have to be subjected to low back pain at all! That’s a tall order though, Layden Chiropractic knows. But consider this: researchers used LPS to establish the degeneration that led to low back pain. They found that procyanidin B3 (PRO-B3) seen in our diets prevented the production of inflammatory markers - tumor necrosis factor α (TNF-Α), interleukin-6 (IL-6), prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) and nitric oxide – associated with disc degeneration. It also stopped the loss of the disc’s gelatin nucleus pulposus cells and structural damage of its anulus fibrosus (outer rings of disc). What does all this signify to researchers looking for a way to stop degenerative disc degeneration (DDD)? PRO-B3 may be looked at as a treatment agent for intervertebral disc degeneration (IVDD). This is a welcome bit of information for those 80% of us adults who are on track to get IVDD, a major cause of low back pain. (3) Another current paper described that the p38 MAPK inflammatory pathway may be able to postpone DDD using the tyrosine kinase inhibitor, Genistein. (4) That is hopeful in the treatment of Plainville back pain and inflammation.
Vitamin D FOR INFLAMMATION
Research says that vitamin D deficiency is linked with low back pain that is stronger in younger women and in those with more severe deficiency. (5) Vitamin D deficiency is connected to lumbar disc disease and more severe low back pain in postmenopausal women. (6) Let us talk about your vitamin D status at your next Plainville chiropractic appointment.
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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Sarah Murrow on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson. In this episode, Dr. Murrow and her patient present how the Cox® Technic System alleviated back pain due to disc bulges.
