Darn your
disc!
Not darn your
disc in a ridiculing type of way way, but in a curing and correcting and rebuilding
way!
Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka
is all about healing the spinal disc. For those Sitka back pain
and neck pain victims, the disc is a pain. If you have back pain, you know exactly what we're talking about. The intervertebral disc is the cartilage material between the vertebral
bones of your spine. The disc is the shock absorber, the intermediary to prevent your bones
from scraping on each other. The healthy disc keeps us tall. The unhealthy,
degenerated disc shrinks us. Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka offers a Sitka non-surgical
treatment plan which encompasses nutritional supplementation to reduce back pain
due to unhealthy discs.
Chiropractic
care at Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka is a hands-on care of
the spine. We use chiropractic
Cox Technic to
reduce spinal pressures and
widen the space in the spinal canal
to reduce pain. While adjusting the spine, chiropractic may also improve
circulation of the
triple joint complex: the disc and the two vertebral bones
around it. While this is happening, Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka wants to maximize the
benefit of improved circulation to get nutrients into the disc that it needs to
be healthy. One of those nutrients is glycosaminoglycan. Let’s discuss this.
Glycosaminoglycan
is a component of aggrecan, a major component of the disc’s make-up. Loss of
aggrecan impairs the disc function and leads to disc degeneration. Granted disc
degeneration due to aggregan loss is a long process, for some as long as
decades. But Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka grabs onto the possibility that the degenerative
process may be stopped or slowed at least by restoring the aggrecan, via
feeding the disc with nutrients that it needs via supplementation. (1) Further, researchers report
that glucosamine lessens the decrease of aggrecan and even prevents the death
of nucleus pulposus (the center part of the disc) cells. (2)
So the poor
disc has a big job. It holds the bones apart despite being compressed by the
two bones. That’s its job. It has to withstand a large compressive load all day
long. So don’t “darn”
your disc when it hurts. Feed it. Rest it. Darn it with supplementation. Get it
the Sitka chiropractic care it needs. Contact Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka today.
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