St Peters Stability is Important for Back Painand for Coping Today

Just a quick note on the current COVID-19. The CDC guidelines regarding how to cope are good. Take care of yourself, EXERCISE, eat healthy, breathe, connect, and hope. Old Mill Chiropractic suggests the same…and also suggests that you see your St Peters 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 St Peters chiropractic patients during times like these may provoking, but exercise to stabilize your spine during and after St Peters back pain episodes.

STABILITY AND BALANCE AND BACK PAIN

Stability and balance go together. Stability refers to how balance is controlled. Inhibited balance control is associated with decreased stability. Balance or rather a disruption of balance or the sense of stability is often noticed in or described by musculoskeletal pain patients who have back pain and neck pain. For this reason, Old Mill Chiropractic observes each chiropractic patient meticulously throughout their entire 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, St Peters neck pain and any related arm pain. Researchers studied this topic of balance and its disruption, too. Recent studies reported on patients’ gait speed, their “timed up and go test” ability, step test and “sit-to-stand test.” Old Mill Chiropractic appreciates these tests. Some of our St Peters chiropractic patients will be curious about what we are examining when we ask them to sit in a chair and stand up from the chair and note how long it takes them to do it! We chiropractors are a curious group! Tests like these tell your St Peters chiropractor much about your spinal condition. A recent analysis of such studies reported that manual therapy like spinal manipulation offered at Old Mill Chiropractic enhanced short-term stability measures. (1) Be certain additional studies like these are underway, and one specifically looking at how Cox® Technic Flexion Distraction alters these tests and eventually the balance and stability of back pain patients is in an initial clinical trial.

BALANCE AND FALLS

Many trials have already documented that numerous chronic musculoskeletal pain patients suffer falls and have balance issues. That is a big issue for older patients with such musculoskeletal pain as they often also have stiffer, less coordinated gait, and worse balance and muscle strength. (1) Old Mill Chiropractic recommends exercise for balance and stability.

EXERCISE FOR STABILITY AND BALANCE

The lumbar spine multifidus muscle is a known and very critical stabilizer for the spine. Soccer players know this! Researchers examined their multifidus muscles during the soccer season. At rest while lying down, these players’ multifidus muscle thickness diminished. Those players with low back pain exhibited 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 said that body composition and body fat and mass were linked to the lumbar multifidus muscle size. Old Mill Chiropractic has some exercise recommendations for our St Peters back pain patients to strengthen their multifidus muscles and increase their sense of balance and stability. Old Mill Chiropractic is ready to give them to you at your St Peters chiropractic visit!

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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 St Peters chiropractic appointment at Old Mill Chiropractic today. Let Old Mill Chiropractic be part of your plan to sustain and enhance your stability and balance throughout your back pain or neck pain episode…as well as in this unusual time of coronavirus.