Back Pain Changes Vancouver Spinal Movement

Any Vancouver back pain sufferer will agree: back pain affects movement. Sitting down takes more time. Standing up is slower. Bending over takes lots of thought…or causes total avoidance. Vancouver Disc Centers knows back pain alters motions. Researchers keep studying just how and how much it changes movement. With chiropractic care, your Vancouver chiropractor is focused on helping you regain the ease of movement you had before you experienced back pain.

SPINAL MOVEMENT ALTERED BY BACK PAIN

Back pain patients move atypically. They often change the way they move to avoid pain. They’ll walk differently. They turn around differently. Their spinal kinematics – motions – are unusual. A new study reviewed over 800 papers on this topic of altered kinematics. The authors asserted that restricted lumbar spinal mobility in all planes brought on by low back pain was statistically significant. (1) Another study concluded that the kind of spinal disorder a patient impacted the biomechanics of the sit-to-stand activity. Patients with spinal deformity-related back pain showed greater differences in a variety of biomechanical motions (like hip, spine, and knee torque) weighed against patients with non-specific low back pain. (2) Determining just how much spinal kinematics are affected by back pain is the job your Vancouver chiropractor relishes most.

TESTING SPINAL MOVEMENT

When healthcare professional like your Vancouver chiropractor evaluate new low back pain patients, tests like sit-to-stand that assess our new patients’ ability to carry out motions that daily activities demand are valuable. Patients with low back pain reveal greatly altered kinematics, motions, of the spine. (3) Patients with low back pain demonstrated motion changes in the lumbar spine, hip and trunk. (4) Chronic non-specific low back pain sufferers exhibited altered motor adaptability while performing diverse repetitive functional tasks like flexion, extension, lifting, walking, sit-to-stand-to-sit motions. (5) The chiropractic spinal examination at Vancouver Disc Centers is thorough to document the extent to which low back pain is impeding your daily activities in order to return you to your activities of daily living with the least possible trouble.

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Listen to the PODCAST with Dr. Matt Alexander on the Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he shares the effective, gentle treatment with the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management for two patients with spinal stenosis, a condition suffered by many people that tends to affect motion.

Schedule your next Vancouver chiropractic appointment with Vancouver Disc Centers. When back pain has affected the way you move, walk, even think about moving, etc., come to Vancouver Disc Centers for not only back pain relief but also a return to more normal kinematic motion.