Minster Stability is Critical for Back Painand for Coping Today
Just a short comment on the current COVID-19. The CDC guidelines regarding how to cope are good. Take care of yourself, EXERCISE, eat healthy, breathe, connect, and hope. Minster Chiropractic Center recommends the same…and adds see your Minster chiropractor for extra stabilization and balance!
From https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/about/coping.html
Now, let’s look at exercise to not only stabilize YOU and your fellow Minster chiropractic patients during times like these may provoking, but exercise to stabilize your spine while and following your Minster back pain episodes.
STABILITY AND BALANCE AND BACK PAIN
Stability and balance go hand-in-hand. Stability refers to how balance is controlled. Reduced balance control is connected with less stability. Balance or rather a disruption of balance or the sense of stability is often observed in or described by musculoskeletal pain patients who have back pain and neck pain. Therefore, Minster Chiropractic Center watches every chiropractic patient carefully throughout their whole visit door to door. Observation is a helpful tool in the management of back pain and related leg pain, Minster neck pain and any related arm pain. Researchers examined 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.” Minster Chiropractic Center is fond of these tests. Some of our Minster chiropractic patients will wonder what we are examining when we have them sit in a chair and stand up from the chair and note how long it takes them to do it! We chiropractors are a funny lot! Tests like these reveal to your Minster chiropractor a lot about your spinal condition. A recent analysis of similar studies stated that manual therapy like spinal manipulation used at Minster Chiropractic Center improved short-term stability measures. (1) Be certain more studies like these are underway, and one explicitly looking at how Cox® Technic Flexion Distraction influences these tests and ultimately the balance and stability of back pain patients is in its first trial.
BALANCE AND FALLS
Many trials have already shown that many chronic musculoskeletal pain patients suffer falls and have balance issues. That is a big issue for older patients with such musculoskeletal pain as they often also have stiffer, less coordinated gait, and poorer balance and muscle strength. (1) Minster Chiropractic Center recommends exercise for balance and stability.
EXERCISE FOR STABILITY AND BALANCE
The lumbar spine multifidus muscle is a well-known and most important stabilizer for the spine. Soccer players get this! Researchers measured their multifidus muscles throughout soccer season. At rest while lying down, these players’ multifidus muscle thickness decreased. Those players with low back pain exhibited significant change at rest. (2) Australian football players with low back pain were to have the same issue while standing and at rest. (3) Both studies said that body composition and body fat and mass were connected with the lumbar multifidus muscle size. Minster Chiropractic Center has some exercise recommendations for our Minster back pain patients to strengthen their multifidus muscles and improve their sense of balance and stability. Minster Chiropractic Center is ready to give them to you at your Minster chiropractic appointment!
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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 showcased.
Schedule your next Minster chiropractic appointment at Minster Chiropractic Center today. Let Minster Chiropractic Center play a role in your plan to sustain and increase your stability and balance throughout your back pain or neck pain episode…and in this odd time of coronavirus.
