Vancouver Stability is Important for Back Painand for Coping Today
Just a quick comment on the current COVID-19. The CDC recommendations about best strategies to cope are good. Take care of yourself, EXERCISE, eat healthy, breathe, connect, and hope. Vancouver Disc Centers recommends the same…and also suggests that you see your Vancouver 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 Vancouver chiropractic patients during times like these may triggering, but exercise to stabilize your spine during and after Vancouver back pain episodes.
STABILITY AND BALANCE AND BACK PAIN
Stability and balance go together. Stability refers to how balance is controlled. Reduced balance control is connected with decreased stability. Balance or rather a loss 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, Vancouver Disc Centers watches each chiropractic patient meticulously during their whole visit from the time you walk through 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, Vancouver 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.” Vancouver Disc Centers appreciates these tests. Some of our Vancouver chiropractic patients will wonder what we’re examining when we have them sit in a chair and stand up from that position and time them! We chiropractors are an inquisitive group! Trials like these reveal to your Vancouver chiropractor a lot about your spinal condition. Another analysis of similar studies found that manual therapy like spinal manipulation used at Vancouver Disc Centers improved short-term stability measures. (1) Be confident more studies like these are underway, and one specifically examining how Cox® Technic Flexion Distraction alters these tests and eventually the balance and stability of back pain patients is in an initial clinical trial.
BALANCE AND FALLS
Many trials have previously documented that numerous chronic musculoskeletal pain patients suffer falls and have balance issues. That is a foremost problem for older patients with such musculoskeletal pain as they manytimes also have stiffer, less coordinated gait, and poorer balance and muscle strength. (1) Vancouver Disc Centers recommends exercise for balance and stability.
EXERCISE FOR STABILITY AND BALANCE
The lumbar spine multifidus muscle is a known and very critical stabilizer for the spine. Soccer players know this! Researchers studied their multifidus muscles during the soccer season. At rest while lying down, these players’ multifidus muscle thickness diminished. Those players with low back pain exhibited 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 said that body composition and body fat and mass were linked to the lumbar multifidus muscle size. Vancouver Disc Centers has some exercise recommendations for our Vancouver back pain patients to strengthen their multifidus muscles and increase their sense of balance and stability. Vancouver Disc Centers is ready to give them to you at your Vancouver chiropractic visit!
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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 highlighted.
Schedule your next Vancouver chiropractic appointment at Vancouver Disc Centers today. Let Vancouver Disc Centers be part of your plan to sustain and enhance your stability and balance during your back pain or neck pain episode…as well as in this unusual time of coronavirus.
