Concord, NC Pain and Inflammation Helped by Spinal Manipulation
Pain and inflammation are known partners. Spinal manipulation has been utilized to reduce spine pain, back pain, neck pain, arm pain, and leg pain. New studies show that the effect of spinal manipulation may extend beyond the spine to potentially mediate inflammation and its impact on spine pain. Pure Chiropractic views improvement in our spine pain patients on many fronts: pain reduction, function improvement, etc. The functions of inflammation in back pain and of spinal manipulation in decreasing that pain is key to the Concord, NC chiropractic treatment plan.
BIOMARKERS
Biomarkers are measurable indicators of body function via tests like blood pressure, urine testing, blood testing, imaging, etc. Biomarkers can indicate normal and abnormal processes occurring in the body. In the realm of back pain, researchers have been looking to blood testable biomarkers like tumor necrosis factor (TNFα), interleukin-1 β (IL-1β), IL-6, IL-2, interferon (IFN), IL-1 receptor antagonist (IL-1RA), TNF soluble receptor type 2 (sTNFR2) and IL-10 to tell the story. A recent biomarker test is brain imaging. What makes brain imaging interesting? Researchers recognize that chronic back pain surely changes the spine and believe that it alters the brain structure. Imaging of the brain is a non-invasive biomarker able to produce brain resting-state functional connectivity to study such variations. (1) Researchers continue thinking up new tests! Pure Chiropractic is following these biomarker findings watchfully.
BIOMARKER TESTING FOR BACK PAIN
As low back pain keeps dominating healthcare as one of the greatest contributors to disability around the globe, researchers are researching biomarkers and their role in low back pain. Researchers wondered if there was a difference in the inflammatory profiles of nonspecific acute and chronic low back pain sufferers. They found a distinct difference in that there was an imbalance between pro-inflammatory and anti-inflammatory mediator levels noting an overproduction of proinflammatory components in both types of patients. (2) Another report found that C-reactive protein in patients with acute non-specific low back pain and TNF-α in chronic non-specific low back pain patients were elevated. (3) These types of tests may help your Concord, NC chiropractor follow your back pain in a new way.
BIOMARKER TESTING OF BACK PAIN RESPONSE TO SPINAL MANIPULATION
The chiropractic treatment plan at Pure Chiropractic now heavily relies on gentle spinal manipulation to relieve pain. A blood test study for biomarkers taken at the start of and 2 weeks after such spinal manipulative treatment documented significant (though limited and diverse) changes in the production of several biomarkers in acute and chronic back pain patients. Pain and disability scores dropped too. (4) These are beneficial findings for the implementation of spinal manipulation for back pain. Pure Chiropractic is excited to learn more about biomarker-level changes with Concord, NC spinal manipulation!
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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. James Cox on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he describes how use of chiropractic spinal manipulation and Cox® Technic Flexion Distraction may well surpass pain relief.
Set up your Concord, NC chiropractic appointment today. Every day, pain and inflammation come to our clinic together. Our treatment helps ease their impact on the lives of our Concord, NC chiropractic patients.
