Manchester Stability is Critical for Back Painand for Coping Today
Just a quick comment on the current COVID-19. The CDC recommendations regarding how to cope are good. Take care of yourself, EXERCISE, eat healthy, breathe, connect, and hope. Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries endorses the same…and also suggests that you see your Manchester chiropractor for extra stabilization and balance!
From https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/about/coping.html
Now, let us look at exercise to not only stabilize YOU and your fellow Manchester chiropractic patients during times of stress as COVID-19 may triggering, but exercise to stabilize your spine during and after Manchester back pain episodes.
STABILITY AND BALANCE AND BACK PAIN
Stability and balance go together. Stability alludes to how balance is controlled. Inhibited balance control is linked with decreased stability. Balance or rather a loss of balance or the sense of stability is often seen in or reported by musculoskeletal pain patients like those with back pain and neck pain. For this reason, Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries observes every chiropractic patient carefully during their whole visit from the time you walk through the front door, down the hall to your treatment room, and out the door again. Observation is a valuable tool in the management of back pain and related leg pain, Manchester 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.” Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries is fond of these tests. Some of our Manchester 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 note how long it takes them to do it! We chiropractors are a curious group! Trials like these tell your Manchester chiropractor a lot about your spinal condition. Another analysis of such studies found that manual therapy like spinal manipulation offered at Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries enhanced short-term stability measures. (1) Be confident additional studies like these are ongoing, and one explicitly looking at how Cox® Technic Flexion Distraction alters these tests and ultimately the balance and stability of back pain patients is underway.
BALANCE AND FALLS
Many trials have already demonstrated 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) Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries urges our patients to exercise for balance and stability.
EXERCISE FOR STABILITY AND BALANCE
The lumbar spine multifidus muscle is a recognized and most important 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 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 as well as lying down. (3) Both studies noted that body composition and body fat and mass were associated with the lumbar multifidus muscle size. Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries has some exercise recommendations for our Manchester back pain patients to boost their multifidus muscles and increase their sense of balance and stability. Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries is ready to show them to you at your Manchester chiropractic visit!
CONTACT Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries
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 Manchester chiropractic appointment at Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries today. Let Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries play a role in your plan to maintain and increase your stability and balance throughout your back pain or neck pain episode…and in this unusual time of coronavirus.
