“You’re young! You don’t have to worry about
back pain.” Not true! New research shows that young and old alike
must contend with disc degeneration. Most of us will personally have
to face disc degeneration’s pain at some point in our lives…or help a loved one dealing with its back pain or neck pain
effects. Layden Chiropractic is here for young and
old alike when Plainville disc degeneration disrupts your quality of
life.
DDD STARTS EARLIER THAN ONCE THOUGHT
It’s hard to believe, but it’s documented
in the medical literature. Disc degeneration begins in the late
teens! A study of 18-20 year old healthy
air force cadets revealed that 77% had13
disc degeneration or disc herniation. (1) That is a new revelation! It has been recorded
elsewhere that disc degeneration starts at
age 20. Now it is shown to rear its head
in 18 year olds! In this project MRIs were done on
all cadets. They all reported no spine pain. The
MRIs revealed that: 30% showed at least one disc was
dehydrating, 13% disc narrowing, 49% disc bulging, 18% disc protruding, 8% disc
extruding, 13% with spondylolisthesis, and less than 1% even showed
asymptomatic vertebral fractures. These findings in young,
seemingly healthy people are similar to what would be predictable
in adults. (1) It is never too early to start paying attention to the spine! Layden Chiropractic takes care of spines at all ages via spinal manipulation, nutrition
and exercise.
WHY?
Researchers (and parents) wonder “why?” Why does
lumbar spine disc degeneration or cervical spine disc degeneration begin so early? It may be genetic. 80% of patients in a recent study had mutations
in their collagen-encoding genes. Collagen is important to disc and
joint health. Back pain sufferers with a lumbar disc herniation showed two variants in their gene encoding
for aggrecan, a protein that the end plate depends on for load-bearing. Such a mutation
influences the nucleus pulposus, annulus fibrosus and end plates.
(2) Certainly, the whole story of why a disc
degenerates isn’t fully known yet. Layden Chiropractic
does have ways to restrain and relieve the pain of
a Plainville degenerated disc.
INTERRUPTING DISC DEGENERATION, PROMOTING DISC REGENERATION
Researchers described disc degeneration as a
complex connection of mechanical, biochemical, and structural changes
at the cellular level, cells that are in an abnormal mechanical environment.
Regeneration of such cells would require very specific conditions and
wouldn’t always be possible. However, traction of 2 to 6 weeks was
found to be a sensitive time for regeneration of a degenerated
disc. The researchers suggest that this could interrupt the above
described cascade of changes. (3) Layden Chiropractic uses Cox® Technic
to gently produce a positive environment for the healing of degenerated
discs by increasing the area of the spinal canal by 28%,
increasing the height of the disc by 17%, and decreasing
intradiscal pressures to as low as -192mmHg in the low back and dropping
pressures in the cervical spine by a mean pressure as much as 1265 mmHg. (4,5)
Layden Chiropractic takes it one more step with the Cox® Technic
system of spinal pain management by adding spinal nutrition (particularly
disc nutrition supplementation) and exercise to boost the relief
and clinical outcome for Plainville back pain patients.
CONTACT Layden Chiropractic
Listen to this PODCAST
with Dr. Paxton Schofield on The Back Doctors’ Podcast with Dr.
Michael Johnson who discussed his care of arthritis and
degeneration with Cox® Technic.
Schedule your Plainville chiropractic appointment at
Layden Chiropractic for your spine’s health. You may not be as young as you
think for back pain, and you are surely
not too young to take care of your spine. A Plainville
chiropractic treatment plan of spinal manipulation, nutrition and exercise can be
good for all ages of back pain and neck pain sufferers due to
disc degeneration.