Juneau Stability is Important for Back Painand for Coping Today
Just a quick note on the current COVID-19. The CDC recommendations about coping are good. Look after yourself, EXERCISE, eat healthy, breathe, connect, and hope. Aurora Chiropractic Center advocates the same…and also suggests that you see your Juneau chiropractor for extra stabilization and balance!
From https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/about/coping.html
Now, let’s consider exercise to not only stabilize YOU and your fellow Juneau chiropractic patients during times like these may triggering, but exercise to stabilize your spine during and after Juneau back pain episodes.
STABILITY AND BALANCE AND BACK PAIN
Stability and balance go hand-in-hand. Stability refers to how balance is controlled. Inhibited balance control is associated with decreased stability. Balance or rather a loss of balance or the sense of stability is often noticed in or reported by musculoskeletal pain patients like those with back pain and neck pain. For this reason, Aurora Chiropractic Center observes each chiropractic patient carefully during their whole visit from the time you walk in the front door, down the hall to your treatment room, and out the door again. Observation is a helpful tool in the management of back pain and related leg pain, Juneau 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.” Aurora Chiropractic Center is fond of these tests. Some of our Juneau chiropractic patients will be curious about what we are examining when we have them sit in a chair and stand up from that position and note how long it takes them to do it! We chiropractors are a funny lot! Trials like these tell your Juneau chiropractor a lot about your spinal condition. A recent analysis of similar studies stated that manual therapy like spinal manipulation offered at Aurora Chiropractic Center enhanced short-term stability measures. (1) Rest assured more studies like these are underway, and one explicitly looking at how Cox® Technic Flexion Distraction affects these tests and ultimately the balance and stability of back pain patients is in an initial clinical trial.
BALANCE AND FALLS
Many trials have already shown that numerous chronic musculoskeletal pain patients suffer falls and have balance issues. That is a big problem for older patients with such musculoskeletal pain as they manytimes also have stiffer, less coordinated gait, and poorer balance and muscle strength. (1) Aurora Chiropractic Center recommends exercise for balance and stability.
EXERCISE FOR STABILITY AND BALANCE
The lumbar spine multifidus muscle is a known and very vital stabilizer for the spine. Soccer players get this! Researchers examined their multifidus muscles throughout soccer season. At rest while lying down, these players’ multifidus muscle thickness diminished. Those players with low back pain showed 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 connected with the lumbar multifidus muscle size. Aurora Chiropractic Center has some exercise recommendations for our Juneau back pain patients to strengthen their multifidus muscles and improve their sense of balance and stability. Aurora Chiropractic Center is ready to share them with you at your Juneau chiropractic appointment!
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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 Juneau chiropractic appointment at Aurora Chiropractic Center today. Let Aurora Chiropractic Center be part of your plan to sustain and improve your stability and balance during your back pain or neck pain episode…and in this unusual time of coronavirus.
