Concord, NC Stability is Critical for Back Painand for Coping Today

Just a short comment on the current COVID-19. The CDC guidelines about best strategies to cope are good. Take care of yourself, EXERCISE, eat healthy, breathe, connect, and hope. Pure Chiropractic suggests the same…and also suggests that you see your Concord, NC chiropractor for extra stabilization and balance!

 

From https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/about/coping.html

Now, let’s look at exercise to not only stabilize YOU and your fellow Concord, NC chiropractic patients during times of stress as COVID-19 may triggering, but exercise to stabilize your spine while and following your Concord, NC back pain episodes.

STABILITY AND BALANCE AND BACK PAIN

Stability and balance go together. Stability refers to how balance is controlled. Reduced balance control is linked with reduced stability. Balance or rather a disruption of balance or the sense of stability is often seen in or described by musculoskeletal pain patients who experience back pain and neck pain. Therefore, Pure Chiropractic observes every chiropractic patient carefully throughout their whole visit door to door. Observation is a valuable tool in the management of back pain and related leg pain, Concord, NC neck pain and any related arm pain. Researchers examined this topic of balance and its disruption, too. New studies reported on patients’ gait speed, their “timed up and go test” ability, step test and “sit-to-stand test.” Pure Chiropractic is fond of these tests. Some of our Concord, NC chiropractic patients will be curious about what we are examining when we ask them to sit in a chair and stand up from that position and time them! We chiropractors are a curious group! Trials like these tell your Concord, NC chiropractor much about your spinal condition. Another analysis of such studies found that manual therapy like spinal manipulation offered at Pure Chiropractic improved short-term stability measures. (1) Be confident additional studies like these are in progress, and one specifically looking at how Cox® Technic Flexion Distraction influences these tests and ultimately the balance and stability of back pain patients is underway.

BALANCE AND FALLS

Many trials have previously shown that many chronic musculoskeletal pain patients experience falls and have balance issues. That is a foremost issue for older patients with such musculoskeletal pain as they manytimes also have stiffer, less coordinated gait, and poorer balance and muscle strength. (1) Pure Chiropractic recommends exercise for balance and stability.

EXERCISE FOR STABILITY AND BALANCE

The lumbar spine multifidus muscle is a recognized and most vital stabilizer for the spine. Soccer players know this! Researchers examined their multifidus muscles throughout soccer season. At rest while lying down, these players’ multifidus muscle thickness decreased. Those players with low back pain demonstrated significant change at rest. (2) Australian football players with low back pain were to have the same issue while standing and at rest. (3) Both studies said that body composition and body fat and mass were connected with the lumbar multifidus muscle size. Pure Chiropractic has some exercise recommendations for our Concord, NC back pain patients to strengthen their multifidus muscles and increase their sense of balance and stability. Pure Chiropractic is ready to show them to you at your Concord, NC 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 showcased.

Schedule your next Concord, NC chiropractic appointment at Pure Chiropractic today. Let Pure Chiropractic be part of your plan to maintain and increase your stability and balance during your back pain or neck pain episode…and in this unusual time of coronavirus.