Williamson Stability is Important for Back Painand for Coping Today
Just a quick comment on the current COVID-19. The CDC recommendations regarding how to cope are good. Take care of yourself, EXERCISE, eat healthy, breathe, connect, and hope. Apple Country Chiropractic advocates the same…and adds see your Williamson chiropractor for extra stabilization and balance!
From https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/about/coping.html
Now, let’s consider exercise to not only stabilize YOU and your fellow Williamson chiropractic patients during times of stress as COVID-19 may provoking, but exercise to stabilize your spine during and after Williamson 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 connected with reduced stability. Balance or rather a loss of balance or the sense of stability is often seen in or described by musculoskeletal pain patients who experience back pain and neck pain. For this reason, Apple Country Chiropractic watches every chiropractic patient carefully throughout their whole 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 helpful tool in the management of back pain and related leg pain, Williamson 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.” Apple Country Chiropractic is fond of these tests. Some of our Williamson chiropractic patients will wonder what we’re examining when we have them sit in a chair and stand up from the chair and time them! We chiropractors are a curious group! Trials like these tell your Williamson chiropractor a lot about your spinal condition. A recent analysis of similar studies stated that manual therapy like spinal manipulation used at Apple Country Chiropractic improved short-term stability measures. (1) Be certain additional studies like these are in progress, and one specifically looking at how Cox® Technic Flexion Distraction alters these tests and ultimately the balance and stability of back pain patients is in its first trial.
BALANCE AND FALLS
Many trials have already documented that numerous chronic musculoskeletal pain patients suffer falls and have balance issues. That is a foremost problem for older patients with such musculoskeletal pain as they often also have stiffer, less coordinated gait, and poorer balance and muscle strength. (1) Apple Country 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 decreased. Those players with low back pain showed 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 noted that body composition and body fat and mass were linked to the lumbar multifidus muscle size. Apple Country Chiropractic has some exercise recommendations for our Williamson back pain patients to strengthen their multifidus muscles and increase their sense of balance and stability. Apple Country Chiropractic is ready to give them to you at your Williamson chiropractic visit!
CONTACT Apple Country Chiropractic
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 highlighted.
Schedule your next Williamson chiropractic appointment at Apple Country Chiropractic today. Let Apple Country Chiropractic play a role in your plan to sustain and increase your stability and balance throughout your back pain or neck pain episode…as well as throughout this unusual time of coronavirus.
