November 2019 Healthy News: Brain Care Tips from Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries
The brain is a marvelous organ. It is like a computer for the body taking information in and sending information out every second of life for each of us humans in Manchester. Pain changes its function to safeguard the body. In chronic low back pain, pain the Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries sees daily, the brain’s dorsolateral prefrontal cortex diminishes in addition to brain gray matter reduction and cognitive ability impairment. Treating chronic pain is found to help the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex thicken after treatment. Research like this proposes that treating chronic pain can reestablish normal brain function. (1) Spinal manipulation helps chronic low back pain sufferers with their expectation of pain and fear of movement. Using MRI to look at the brain function in such patients, researchers verified that spinal manipulation has an effect on pain, expected pain, fear of exercise and movement in additional to other related brain responses. (2) Further, chiropractic spinal adjustments were found to potentially modify central processing of pain and unpleasantness. (3) Certainly, research in this area of spinal manipulation effects on the brain and its function is advancing. It proposes that the changes occur in brain function with a call for more examination of these changes. (4) The potential for spinal manipulation to influence such issues is quite exciting to your Manchester chiropractor at Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries and our Manchester chiropractic patients like you!
Listen to this Podcast with Dr. Nike Taylor on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson about how the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management deals with chronic low back pain to better sufferers’ quality of life.
TIP OF THE MONTH: Take Care of Your Brain
Brain health, physical ability, and sleep quality are related to life enjoyment. Researchers report that exercise exerts influence on the brain and its processes. Physical activity of any type is an economical and good way to promote brain health. The question is which exercise is best for each person? Researchers strive to know how gender, genetics and other factors affect brain function. (5) Sleep quality, mental health, and physical activity are demonstrated to affect a person’s perceived quality of life. (6) Sleep, exercise as you like, and enjoy life to keep your brain active and healthy!
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