Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka Makes Non-Specific Low Back Pain More Specific for Relief

Non-specific low back pain. Really? That’s not what a back pain patient wants to hear! Well, your Sitka chiropractor at Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka knows some specific qualities of back pain like yours and particular ways to help control and ease its pain with chiropractic care.

NSLBP CHARACTERISTICS

What renders non-specific low back pain (NSLBP) so non-specific? A recent review of research documented  121 movement and 150 muscular activity biomarkers to differentiate non-specific low back pain sufferers from asymptomatic people. (1) That information is valuable for diagnosing and treating non-specific low back pain. Researchers listed these issues as being contributory to non-specific low back pain: short hip flexors, low muscle activity of the gluteus maximus, and high erector spinae activity during hip extension in addition to weak endurance of the lumbar extensor muscles and compensatory movement of the lumbar spine. (2) Researchers have specifically explored how reduced hamstring flexibility may impact low back pain development via 4 tests for flexibility and 5 for stiffness when examining low back pain sufferers. (3) Further, they also noted significantly poorer back extensor muscle endurance in non-specific chronic low back pain patients. (4) Restricted lateral flexion of the lumbar spine, limited hamstring range of motion, and decreased lumbar lordosis were linked to greater odds of developing low back pain. (5) A simple, easy test called Five Times Sit-to-Stand Test measures lower extremity muscle strength, balance, function, and pain in chronic non-specific low back pain patients. (6) (It is not a bad exercise to do regularly either to improve all of these issues! Start doing them after we examine you.)

HELP FOR RESTRICTED MOVEMENT

Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka uses a multi-pronged approach to helping NSLBP patients with their movement. The gentle, non-radicular treatment protocols of Cox® Technic Flexion Distraction Decompression are intended to provoke and restore normal ranges of spinal motion.  (7) A lumbar support brace may be suggested. The use of a lumbar support belt enjoys a complicated reputation of being useful and not being useful depending on the author. Interesting! In a new study, healthy persons vs non-specific low back pain patients demonstrated that two kinds of lumbar belts – extensible and non-extensible - had a beneficial effect on motor control in patients with nonspecific low back pain and thereby may be helpful in sit-to-stand motion that is essential in everyday living for nonspecific low back pain patients. (8) Exercises to make the extensor muscles stronger and spinal nutrition supplements may also be advised to support your effort to ease and control your non-specific low back pain.

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Listen to the PODCAST with Dr. Joseph Beissel on the Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he shares the effective, gentle treatment with the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management for his patient with chronic low back pain.       

Schedule your next Sitka chiropractic appointment with Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka. We work to make specific what we can of your low back pain’s origin and its relief.