Aurora Chiropractic Center Makes Non-Specific Low Back Pain More Specific for Relief
Non-specific low back pain. Really? Who wants to hear their back pain is “non-specific”? Well, your Juneau chiropractor at Aurora Chiropractic Center knows some specific features of back pain like yours and specific ways to help control and alleviate its pain with chiropractic care.
NSLBP CHARACTERISTICS
What renders non-specific low back pain (NSLBP) so non-specific? A recent review of research provided evidence of 121 movement and 150 muscular activity biomarkers to distinguish non-specific low back pain sufferers from asymptomatic others. (1) That information is critical for diagnosing and treating non-specific low back pain. Contributing issues to non-specific low back pain included: short hip flexors, low muscle activity of the gluteus maximus, and high erector spinae activity throughout hip extension in addition to weak endurance of the lumbar extensor muscles and compensatory movement of the lumbar spine. (2) Researchers have specifically explored how reduced hamstring flexibility may add to low back pain development via 4 tests for flexibility and 5 for stiffness when examining low back pain sufferers. (3) Further, they also recorded significantly poorer back extensor muscle endurance in non-specific chronic low back pain patients. (4) Restricted lateral flexion of the lumbar spine, limited hamstring range of motion, and decreased lumbar lordosis were associated with greater odds of developing low back pain. (5) A simple, easy test called Five Times Sit-to-Stand Test assesses lower extremity muscle strength, balance, function, and pain in chronic non-specific low back pain patients. (6) (Performing this test daily is not such a bad idea either! It could improve all of these problems! Add them to your routine after we examine you.)
HELP FOR RESTRICTED MOVEMENT
Aurora Chiropractic Center uses a multi-pronged approach to helping NSLBP patients with their movement. The gentle, non-radicular treatment protocols of Cox® Technic Flexion Distraction Decompression are designed to provoke and reestablish normal ranges of motion to the spine. (7) A lumbar support brace may be suggested. The use of a lumbar support belt enjoys a complicated reputation of being useful and not being useful depending on the author. Interesting! In a new study, healthy persons vs non-specific low back pain patients showed that two kinds of lumbar belts – extensible and non-extensible - had a beneficial effect on motor control in patients with nonspecific low back pain, suggesting they may be helpful in sit-to-stand motion that is important in everyday living for nonspecific low back pain patients. (8) Exercises to strengthen the extensor muscles and spinal nutrition supplements may also be advised to support your effort to get rid of and control your non-specific low back pain.
CONTACT Aurora Chiropractic Center
Listen to the PODCAST with Dr. Joseph Beissel on the Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he describes the effective, gentle treatment with the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management for a patient with chronic low back pain.
Make your next Juneau chiropractic appointment with Aurora Chiropractic Center. We work to make specific what we can of your low back pain’s cause as well as its relief.
