Sitka Stability is Critical for Back Painand for Coping Today
Just a quick note on the current COVID-19. The CDC recommendations about coping are good. Take care of yourself, EXERCISE, eat healthy, breathe, connect, and hope. Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka suggests the same…and adds see your Sitka 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 Sitka chiropractic patients during times like these may triggering, but exercise to stabilize your spine during and after Sitka 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 decreased stability. Balance or rather a loss of balance or the sense of stability is often noticed in or described by musculoskeletal pain patients like those with back pain and neck pain. For this reason, Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka watches each chiropractic patient meticulously throughout their entire visit from the time you walk through the front door, down the hall to your treatment room, and out the door again. Observation is a valuable tool in the management of back pain and related leg pain, Sitka neck pain and any related arm pain. Researchers studied 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.” Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka likes these tests. Some of our Sitka chiropractic patients will be curious about 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 tell your Sitka chiropractor a lot about your spinal condition. A recent analysis of similar studies found that manual therapy like spinal manipulation offered at Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka enhanced short-term stability measures. (1) Be certain more studies like these are ongoing, and one explicitly looking at how Cox® Technic Flexion Distraction affects these tests and ultimately the balance and stability of back pain patients is underway.
BALANCE AND FALLS
Many trials have already documented that numerous chronic musculoskeletal pain patients suffer falls and have balance issues. That is a foremost problem for older patients with such musculoskeletal pain as they often also have stiffer, less coordinated gait, and worse balance and muscle strength. (1) Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka urges our patients to exercise for balance and stability.
EXERCISE FOR STABILITY AND BALANCE
The lumbar spine multifidus muscle is a recognized and very vital stabilizer for the spine. Soccer players know this! Researchers examined 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 as well as lying down. (3) Both studies saw that body composition and body fat and mass were linked to the lumbar multifidus muscle size. Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka has some exercise recommendations for our Sitka back pain patients to boost their multifidus muscles and increase their sense of balance and stability. Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka is ready to give them to you at your Sitka chiropractic appointment!
CONTACT Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka
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 Sitka chiropractic appointment at Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka today. Let Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka play a role in your plan to sustain and enhance your stability and balance during your back pain or neck pain episode…and in this unusual time of coronavirus.
