November 2019 Healthy News: Brain Care Tips from Vancouver Disc Centers
The brain is a marvelous organ. It is like a computer for the body processing input and sending output every second of life for each of us humans in Vancouver. Pain changes its function to protect the body. In chronic low back pain, pain the Vancouver Disc Centers cares for every day, the brain’s dorsolateral prefrontal cortex shrinks in addition to brain gray matter reduction and cognitive ability impairment. Treating chronic pain is found to help the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex thicken after treatment. Research like this suggests that treating chronic pain can reestablish normal brain function. (1) Spinal manipulation helps chronic low back pain sufferers with their anticipation of pain and fear of movement. Using MRI to look at the brain function in such patients, researchers verified that spinal manipulation has an effect on pain, expected pain, fear of exercise and movement as well as other related brain responses. (2) Further, chiropractic spinal adjustments were found to potentially modify central processing of pain and unpleasantness. (3) Naturally, research in this area of spinal manipulation effects on the brain and its function is evolving. It suggests that the changes occur in brain function with a call for more analysis of these changes. (4) The potential for spinal manipulation to affect such issues is quite exciting to your Vancouver chiropractor at Vancouver Disc Centers and our Vancouver chiropractic patients like you!
Listen to this Podcast with Dr. Nike Taylor on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson about how the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management addresses chronic low back pain to improve sufferers’ quality of life.
TIP OF THE MONTH: Take Care of Your Brain
Brain health, physical ability, and sleep quality are linked to life enjoyment. Researchers relate that exercise affects the brain and its processes. Physical activity of any type is a cost-effective and good way to boost brain health. The issue is which exercise is appropriate for each person? Researchers strive to know how gender, genetics and other factors affect brain function. (5) Sleep quality, mental health, and physical activity are demonstrated to affect a person’s sense of quality of life. (6) Sleep, exercise as you choose, and enjoy life to maintain your brain’s active state and health!
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