The Spinal Connections: Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries Offers Spinal Manipulation Which Shows Lower Limb Strength Improvement
It’s all connected. The spine, the hips, the knees, the legs, the feet, the toes. In new published articles, the connection between spinal manipulation and the relief of lower limb pain and weakness in addition to imbalance are explored. Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries has noticed such relief. The research adds to the talk with such Manchester chiropractic patients that there is hope for their condition.
LOWER LIMB STRENGTH IMPROVEMENT
Manchester chiropractic patients come to Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries with usually one pain issue and do not even note other issues until we find them together during the spinal exam. We are manytimes detectives together! The chiropractic exam can uncover clues to the condition at hand, clues that frequently are sore or weak and, thankfully, also calm with chiropractic treatment. Lower limb weakness is often overlooked by back and leg pain patients. Pain is the attention-getter. One report reported that a single spinal manipulation enhanced muscle strength (for 30 minutes) and corticospinal excitability (for an hour) to ankle plantar flexor muscles in Taekwondo athletes. (1) Another study of spinal manipulation’s effect on lower limb strength of healthy people showed immediate boost in muscle strength after just one treatment. The chiropractic spinal manipulation treatment helps ease the pain and improve the lower limb weakness. The effect is found to be immediate with just one spinal manipulation. For patients who experience hip and knee weakness yet otherwise healthy, the strength improvement is even larger. (2) Patients at Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries have reported just such improvement!
LOWER LIMB IMBALANCE IMPROVEMENT
Other Manchester chiropractic patients with limb imbalances in whom one leg seems stronger than the other have noticed relief with their Manchester chiropractic spinal manipulation, also. They may realize they have it or do not realize it until we go through the exam jointly. Once discovered, limb strength imbalances of at least 15% in hip flexion, extension, abduction or knee flexion cared for with spinal manipulation got better compared to placebo treatment. These strength improvements were noted after just one lumbar spine manipulation session. (3) Spinal mobilization boosted hip flexor strength and performance in asymptomatic young adults. (4) These are positive results for our Manchester chiropractic patients!
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Check out this PODCAST by Dr. Kim Lombardy on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he shares the story of a patient with hip pain after a hip replacement surgery to get rid of the hip pain. His care with the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management did the trick.
Schedule your next Manchester chiropractic care appointment with Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries. Come see how spinal manipulation may better your spine, hip and knee pain and weakness, back pain, and more! Experience the healing connection yourself!
