Back Pain Changes St Peters Spinal Movement

Any St Peters back pain sufferer will agree: back pain affects movement. Sitting down takes more time. Standing up is slower. Bending over takes lots of thought…or prompts total avoidance. Old Mill Chiropractic knows back pain alters movements. Researchers keep studying just how and how much it alters movement. With chiropractic care, your St Peters chiropractor is focused on helping you regain the simplicity of movement you had before you experienced back pain.

SPINAL MOVEMENT ALTERED BY BACK PAIN

Patients with low back pain move differently. They often alter the way they move to evade pain. You will see them walk differently. They bend differently. Their spinal kinematics – motions – are different. A recent study reviewed over 800 papers on this topic of altered kinematics. The authors concluded that the limitation of lumbar spinal mobility in all planes brought on by low back pain was statistically significant. (1) Another study concluded that the type of spinal disorder a patient affected the biomechanics of the sit-to-stand movement. Patients with spinal deformity-related back pain demonstrated greater differences in an array of biomechanical motions (like hip, spine, and knee torque) compared to patients with non-specific low back pain. (2) Determining just how much spinal kinematics are affected by back pain is your St Peters chiropractor’s much-loved job.

TESTING SPINAL MOVEMENT

When healthcare professional like your St Peters chiropractor evaluate new low back pain patients, tests like sit-to-stand that assess our new patients’ ability to carry out motions that daily activities demand are valuable. Patients with low back pain reveal greatly altered kinematics, motions, of the spine. (3) Patients with low back pain showed motion changes in the lumbar spine, hip and trunk. (4) Chronic non-specific low back pain sufferers showed altered motor adaptability while doing diverse repetitive functional tasks like flexion, extension, lifting, walking, sit-to-stand-to-sit motions. (5) The chiropractic spinal examination at Old Mill Chiropractic is thorough to record just how much low back pain is impacting your daily activities with a goal to get you back to doing them again with the least possible trouble.

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Listen to the PODCAST with Dr. Matt Alexander on the Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he describes the effective, gentle treatment with the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management for two patients with spinal stenosis, a condition shared by a lot of people that tends to affect motion.

Schedule your next St Peters chiropractic appointment with Old Mill Chiropractic. When back pain has affected the way you move, walk, even think about moving, etc., make a visit to Old Mill Chiropractic for not only back pain relief but also a return to more normal kinematic motion.