Vancouver Back Pain Linked with Sarcopenia and Back Muscle Degeneration
Sarcopenia finds many of us some day if we live long so long! Muscle degeneration comes with aging. Many of us won’t escape it. Sarcopenia is the degenerative loss of skeletal muscle mass, quality and strength that goes with aging. But back pain severity is more related to degenerated back muscles than sarcopenia. The more back muscle degeneration, the more back pain is sufferered. (1) Vancouver Disc Centers treats older Vancouver back pain patients to manage their back pain and control its impact on their lives as they age gracefully.
MUSCLE DEGENERATION AND LIFE EXPERIENCE
Aging and life influence muscle strength. A recent report states that after having had a back surgery, post-surgical back pain patients’ MRIs revealed muscle degeneration in all of them. Type 2 fatty degeneration was most often seen over other types of changes like inflammation and scarring. (2) Muscle degeneration contributes to patients’ experiences of back pain.
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BACK PAIN AND MUSCLE DEGENERATION IN OLDER FOLKS
Chronic changes in back muscles are seen throughout the spine eventually. Acute changes immediately after injury are seen within a few days. Researchers wanted to know if these changes came before or after the injury. They discovered that the multifidus muscle reduced quickly after lumbar injury at the level of injury. (3) In the latest study of patients over 65 years of age, 40% of chronic low back pain patients experienced sarcopenia. 26.6% of the control group (those who didn’t have chronic low back pain) were affected by sarcopenia. The skeletal muscle mass was much lower and body fat ratio was much higher in the chronic low back pain patients. Lumbar multifidis and erector spine muscles were much lower in the chronic low back pain group, too. (4) Vancouver chiropractic patients with sarcopenia have back pain and other issues that chiropractic treats.
SARCOPENIA PAIN AND OTHER ISSUES’ EFFECTS
Vancouver Disc Centers sees males and females with sarcopenia and other spinal problems in its Vancouver chiropractic practice. Sarcopenia in patients with lumbar spinal stenosis was much more prevalent in females than males over 70 years old. In one study, 13.9% of patients were affected by sarcopenia which was accompanied by dyslipidemia and cardiovascular disease. They also had lower body weight, body mass, grip strength, and walking distance. These patients experienced pain more acutely. (5) Your Vancouver chiropractor knows this and gently manages their experience of pain and its source with gentle chiropractic treatment and exercise.
CONTACT Vancouver Disc Centers
Schedule a Vancouver chiropractic visit with Vancouver Disc Centers for back pain issues related to sarcopenia and degenerated back muscles. Aging, back pain and degeneration won’t have to prevent you from enjoying your life!
