Apple Country Chiropractic Makes Non-Specific Low Back Pain More Specific for Relief

Non-specific low back pain. Really? That’s not what a back pain patient wants to hear! Well, your Williamson chiropractor at Apple Country Chiropractic knows some specific qualities of back pain like yours and specific ways to help control and alleviate its pain with chiropractic care.

NSLBP CHARACTERISTICS

What makes non-specific low back pain (NSLBP) so non-specific? A newer review of research documented  121 movement and 150 muscular activity biomarkers to distinguish non-specific low back pain sufferers from asymptomatic others. (1) That information is critical for diagnosing and treating non-specific low back pain. Contributing issues to non-specific low back pain included: short hip flexors, low muscle activity of the gluteus maximus, and elevated erector spinae activity during hip extension as well as weak endurance of the lumbar extensor muscles and irregular movement of the lumbar spine to compensate for the weak muscles. (2) Researchers have specifically explored how reduced hamstring flexibility may contribute to low back pain development via 4 tests for flexibility and 5 for stiffness when examining low back pain sufferers. (3) Further, they also noticed significantly worse back extensor muscle endurance in non-specific chronic low back pain patients. (4) Limited lateral flexion of the lumbar spine, limited hamstring range of motion, and decreased lumbar lordosis were linked to an increased risk of developing low back pain. (5) A simple, easy test known as Five Times Sit-to-Stand Test measures lower extremity muscle strength, balance, function, and pain in chronic non-specific low back pain patients. (6) (Performing this test on a daily basis is not such a bad idea either! It could improve all of these problems! Try them out after we examine you.)

HELP FOR RESTRICTED MOVEMENT

Apple Country Chiropractic uses a multi-faceted approach to helping NSLBP patients with their movement. The gentle, non-radicular treatment protocols of Cox® Technic Flexion Distraction Decompression are intended to elicit and reestablish normal ranges of motion to the spine.  (7) A lumbar support belt may be proposed. The use of a lumbar support belt enjoys a complicated reputation of being useful and not being useful depending on the author. Interesting! In a recent study, healthy persons vs non-specific low back pain patients demonstrated that two types of lumbar belts – extensible and non-extensible - had a positive effect on motor control in patients with nonspecific low back pain, suggesting they may be beneficial in sit-to-stand motion that is vital in everyday living for nonspecific low back pain patients. (8) Exercises to make the extensor muscles stronger and spinal nutrition supplements may also be recommended to support your effort to ease and control your non-specific low back pain.

CONTACT Apple Country Chiropractic

Listen to the PODCAST with Dr. Joseph Beissel on the Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he explains the effective, gentle treatment with the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management for his patient with chronic low back pain.       

Make your next Williamson chiropractic appointment with Apple Country Chiropractic. We work to make specific what we can of your low back pain’s origin as well as its relief.