Minster Exercise and Manipulation May Help Get Water into Disc
Water is essential to the body. The body is composed of around 50% water. The spinal disc has around 80% water. Disc degeneration entails the loss of water and disc hydration. Chiropractic manages disc problems like disc degeneration with a variety of approaches. Exercise helps with water diffusion into the disc. Spinal manipulation boosts diffusion of water into the disc. Drinking water can’t hurt either! Minster Chiropractic Center implements spinal manipulation to take care of our spine pain patients suffering with Minster back pain and neck pain and related arm and leg pain and recommends exercise to boost the effects of spinal manipulation to take care of the spinal disc.
DIFFUSION OF WATER INTO THE DISC VIA EXERCISE
Can exercise help the intervertebral disc in non-specific low back pain sufferers? Researchers described how muscles, tendons and bone do respond positively, so they looked at the disc to see if it does. One new study used imaging to see. On T2-weighted MRI imaging after 6 months of exercise in the patient with non specific low back pain, the researchers did not find a benefit though at 3 months the imaging showed increased L5S1 diffusion coefficients. They stated that other types of low back pain sufferers may respond differently. (1) That’s noteworthy. The increased 'apparent diffusion coefficients' is promising though when we read other articles about diffusion of water into the disc. Wong explained that non-specific low back pain patients who responded with greater than 30% relief to spinal manipulation therapy compared with non-responders showed a higher apparent diffusion coefficient for diffusion of water into the disc. (2) If exercise can boost that even a little, it has a spot in back and neck pain management. At the very least, a Minster back pain sufferer may well improve the odds of responding to conservative care by raising the water content of disc with exercise and spinal manipulation!
Minster SPINAL MANIPULATION AND WATER DIFFUSION INTO THE DISC
Studies of manual therapy and traction effects on the intervertebral disc in back pain patients demonstrated that there is an effect on the physiology (the structure and function) of the disc mainly via water diffusion and molecular transport. Both of these are vital for a healthy disc. (3) Beattie reported that changes in the diffusion of water within the the L1-2, L2-3, and L5S1 discs were seen after only one treatment of spinal manipulation. (4) Minster Chiropractic Center uses the gentle distraction treatment called Cox Technic spinal manipulation to create a push-pull-pumping effect on the disc and its endplates to encourage the disc to imbibe fluid into the disc help our Minster spine pain patients.
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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. James Cox on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he further discusses the process of disc degeneration and how Cox® Technic Flexion Distraction helps in its care via manipulation.
Schedule your Minster chiropractic appointment today. Your body survives on water. Disc degeneration is a loss of water. Minster Chiropractic Center guides Minster chiropractic patients toward healthier discs with spinal manipulation and exercise to coost water content.
