The Spinal Connections: Apple Country Chiropractic 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 newer published articles, the connection between spinal manipulation and the relief of lower limb pain and weakness in addition to imbalance are explored. Apple Country Chiropractic has seen such relief. The research contributes to the discussion with such Williamson chiropractic patients that there’s hope for their condition.
LOWER LIMB STRENGTH IMPROVEMENT
Williamson chiropractic patients visit Apple Country Chiropractic with typically one pain issue and don’t even note other issues until we find them together during the spinal examination. We are often detectives together! The chiropractic exam can discover clues to the condition at hand, clues that frequently are painful or weak and, thankfully, also resolve with chiropractic treatment. Lower limb weakness is manytimes unnoticed 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 60 minutes) to ankle plantar flexor muscles in Taekwondo athletes. (1) Another paper of spinal manipulation’s effect on lower limb strength of healthy people showed immediate increase in muscle strength after just one session. The chiropractic spinal manipulation treatment helps relieve the pain and increase the lower limb weakness. The effect is found to be immediate with only one spinal manipulation. For patients who have hip and knee weakness yet otherwise healthy, the strength improvement is even bigger. (2) Patients at Apple Country Chiropractic have enjoyed just such improvement!
LOWER LIMB IMBALANCE IMPROVEMENT
Other Williamson chiropractic patients with limb imbalances for whom one leg is seemingly stronger than the other have noticed relief with their Williamson chiropractic spinal manipulation, also. They may know they have it or don’t realize it until we complete the exam together. Once discovered, limb strength imbalances of at least 15% in hip flexion, extension, abduction or knee flexion cared for with spinal manipulation improved compared to placebo treatment. These strength improvements were noted after just one lumbar spine manipulation session. (3) Spinal mobilization enhanced hip flexor strength and performance in asymptomatic young adults. (4) These are positive outcomes for our Williamson 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 relieve the hip pain. His care with the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management did the trick.
Schedule your next Williamson chiropractic care appointment with Apple Country Chiropractic. Come find out how spinal manipulation may improve your spine, hip and knee pain and weakness, back pain, and more! It’s time for you to experience the healing connection!
