Pure Chiropractic Treats Back Pain and Its Inflammatory Process
Red. Swollen. Hot. Painful. Signs of inflammation that no Concord, NC back pain patient desires. Pure Chiropractic offers chiropractic services to reduce back pain by identifying and dealing with any related inflammation.
INFLAMMATION AND BACK PAIN RELATED
How can you tell if there’s inflammation? Like other issues, researchers search for ways to measure it. To measure inflammation, researchers try to find inflammatory biomarkers, biological markers like tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-α), C-reactive protein (CRP), and interleukin-6, interleukin-1β, that exposed an increase. Researchers have uncovered that chronic inflammation raised cytokine production and triggered pro-inflammatory pathways that may lead to non-specific low back pain. (1) Researchers detected systemic inflammation in chronic LBP and may affect transition from acute to persistent low back pain. Specifically, CRP was discovered to be elevated in acute low back pain patients versus control patients. TNF was higher in back pain patients especially in patients with depression. (2) Since researchers have already verified that inflammation is tied to back pain, Pure Chiropractic knows that inflammation must be reduced in order to help reduce Concord, NC back pain.
HOW TO STOP INFLAMMATION
Well, first, understand what inflammation does. Researchers made use of lipopolysaccharide (LPS) to create intervertebral disc degeneration in trials. They want to see what might help decrease the produced back pain that comes with it and/or even avert the degeneration in the first place so we humans don’t have to suffer low back pain at all! That’s a tough call though, Pure Chiropractic understands. But consider this: researchers used LPS to establish the degeneration that led to low back pain. They discovered that procyanidin B3 (PRO-B3) found in our diets blocked the production of inflammatory markers - tumor necrosis factor α (TNF-Α), interleukin-6 (IL-6), prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) and nitric oxide – associated with disc degeneration. It also prevented the loss of the disc’s gelatinous nucleus pulposus cells and structural damage of its anulus fibrosus (outer rings of disc). What’s all this indicate to researchers looking for a way to prevent degenerative disc degeneration (DDD)? PRO-B3 may be considered as a treatment agent for intervertebral disc degeneration (IVDD). This is a welcome bit of information for those 80% of us adults who are likely to have IVDD, a major cause of low back pain. (3) Another current paper described that the p38 MAPK inflammatory pathway may be able to postpone DDD using the tyrosine kinase inhibitor, Genistein. (4) That is encouraging for the treatment of Concord, NC back pain and inflammation.
Vitamin D FOR INFLAMMATION
Research states that vitamin D deficiency is linked with low back pain that is stronger in younger women and in those with more severe deficiency. (5) Vitamin D deficiency is connected to lumbar disc disease and more severe low back pain in postmenopausal women. (6) Let’s talk about your vitamin D status at your next Concord, NC chiropractic appointment.
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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Sarah Murrow on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson. In this episode, Dr. Murrow and her patient present how the Cox® Technic System alleviated back pain due to disc bulges.
