Vancouver Disc Centers Treats Back Pain and Its Inflammatory Process
Red. Swollen. Hot. Painful. Signs of inflammation that no Vancouver back pain patient desires. Vancouver Disc Centers offers chiropractic services to reduce back pain by recognizing and dealing with any associated inflammation.
INFLAMMATION AND BACK PAIN RELATED
How can you deduce if there’s inflammation? Like other issues, researchers look 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 showed an increase. Researchers have uncovered that chronic inflammation increased cytokine production and triggered pro-inflammatory pathways that may bring about non-specific low back pain. (1) Researchers detected systemic inflammation in chronic LBP and may affect transition from acute to persistent low back pain. Specifically, CRP was discovered to be elevated in acute low back pain patients and not in 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, Vancouver Disc Centers realizes that inflammation must be decreased in order to help reduce Vancouver back pain.
HOW TO STOP INFLAMMATION
Well, first, understand what inflammation does. Researchers used lipopolysaccharide (LPS) to create intervertebral disc degeneration in experiments. They want to figure out what may help decrease the produced back pain that comes with it and/or even prevent the degeneration initially so we humans do not have to suffer low back pain at all! That’s a tough call though, Vancouver Disc Centers knows. But follow this: researchers utilized LPS to establish the degeneration that led to low back pain. They found that procyanidin B3 (PRO-B3) found in our diets inhibited the production of inflammatory markers - tumor necrosis factor α (TNF-Α), interleukin-6 (IL-6), prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) and nitric oxide – linked to disc degeneration. It also stopped the loss of the disc’s gelatinous nucleus pulposus cells and structural damage of its anulus fibrosus (outer rings of disc). What’s all this mean to researchers seeking a way to stop degenerative disc degeneration (DDD)? PRO-B3 may be considered as a treatment agent for intervertebral disc degeneration (IVDD). This is a welcome bit of information for those 80% of us adults who are likely to experience IVDD, a major cause of low back pain. (3) Another recent paper explained that the p38 MAPK inflammatory pathway may be able to defer DDD utilizing the tyrosine kinase inhibitor, Genistein. (4) That is hopeful in the treatment of Vancouver back pain and inflammation.
Vitamin D FOR INFLAMMATION
Research states that vitamin D deficiency is associated with low back pain that is stronger in younger women and in those with more severe deficiency. (5) Vitamin D deficiency is linked to lumbar disc disease and more severe low back pain in postmenopausal women. (6) Let’s talk about your vitamin D status at your next Vancouver 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.
