Plainville Stability is Important for Back Painand for Coping Today
Just a quick note on the current COVID-19. The CDC recommendations about coping are good. Take care of yourself, EXERCISE, eat healthy, breathe, connect, and hope. Layden Chiropractic endorses the same…and adds see your Plainville chiropractor for extra stabilization and balance!
From https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/about/coping.html
Now, let’s look at exercise to not only stabilize YOU and your fellow Plainville chiropractic patients during times of stress as COVID-19 may triggering, but exercise to stabilize your spine during and after Plainville back pain episodes.
STABILITY AND BALANCE AND BACK PAIN
Stability and balance go together. Stability refers to how balance is controlled. Inhibited balance control is associated with decreased stability. Balance or rather a disruption of balance or the sense of stability is often seen in or described by musculoskeletal pain patients who experience back pain and neck pain. For this reason, Layden Chiropractic watches every chiropractic patient meticulously throughout their whole visit from the time you walk in the front door, down the hall to your treatment room, and out the door again. Observation is a valuable tool in the management of back pain and related leg pain, Plainville neck pain and any related arm pain. Researchers examined this topic of balance and its disruption, too. Recent studies reported on patients’ gait speed, their “timed up and go test” ability, step test and “sit-to-stand test.” Layden Chiropractic is fond of these tests. Some of our Plainville chiropractic patients will wonder what we are looking for when we ask them to sit in a chair and stand up from the chair and time them! We chiropractors are a curious group! Trials like these tell your Plainville chiropractor a lot about your spinal condition. Another analysis of similar studies reported that manual therapy like spinal manipulation used at Layden Chiropractic improved short-term stability measures. (1) Rest assured additional studies like these are ongoing, and one specifically looking at how Cox® Technic Flexion Distraction affects these tests and eventually the balance and stability of back pain patients is in its first trial.
BALANCE AND FALLS
Many trials have already documented that numerous chronic musculoskeletal pain patients suffer falls and have balance issues. That is a big issue for older patients with such musculoskeletal pain as they often also have stiffer, less coordinated gait, and poorer balance and muscle strength. (1) Layden Chiropractic urges our patients to exercise for balance and stability.
EXERCISE FOR STABILITY AND BALANCE
The lumbar spine multifidus muscle is a well-known and most vital stabilizer for the spine. Soccer players get this! Researchers examined their multifidus muscles throughout soccer season. At rest while lying down, these players’ multifidus muscle thickness decreased. Those players with low back pain showed significant change at rest. (2) Australian football players with low back pain were to have the same issue while standing as well as lying down. (3) Both studies saw that body composition and body fat and mass were connected with the lumbar multifidus muscle size. Layden Chiropractic has some exercise recommendations for our Plainville back pain patients to strengthen their multifidus muscles and increase their sense of balance and stability. Layden Chiropractic is ready to show them to you at your Plainville chiropractic appointment!
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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Marc Baker on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson. The value of The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management for back pain and neck pain patients’ recovery is showcased.
Schedule your next Plainville chiropractic appointment at Layden Chiropractic today. Let Layden Chiropractic be part of your plan to maintain and improve your stability and balance during your back pain or neck pain episode…as well as throughout this odd time of coronavirus.
