Back Pain Changes Sitka Spinal Movement

Any Sitka back pain sufferer will agree: back pain alters movement. Sitting down takes more time. Standing up is slower. Bending over takes lots of thought…or prompts total avoidance. Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka knows back pain alters motions. Researchers continue to study just how and how much it changes motion. With chiropractic care, your Sitka chiropractor is focused on helping you regain the ease of movement you had before you experienced back pain.

SPINAL MOVEMENT ALTERED BY BACK PAIN

Back pain patients move differently. They often change the way they move to evade pain. They’ll walk differently. They bend differently. Their spinal kinematics – motions – are unusual. A new study analyzed over 800 papers on the subject of altered kinematics. The authors wound up stating that the limitation of lumbar spinal mobility in all planes brought on by low back pain was statistically significant. (1) Another study concluded that the kind of spinal disorder a patient affected the biomechanics of the sit-to-stand activity. Patients with spinal deformity-related back pain demonstrated greater differences in an array of biomechanical motions (like hip, spine, and knee torque) compared to patients with non-specific low back pain. (2) Determining just how much spinal kinematics are affected by back pain is your Sitka chiropractor’s much-loved job.

TESTING SPINAL MOVEMENT

When healthcare providers like your Sitka chiropractor analyze new low back pain patients, tests like sit-to-stand that assess our new patients’ ability to perform motions that daily activities demand are valuable. Patients with low back pain show greatly altered kinematics, motions, of the spine. (3) Patients with low back pain showed motion changes in the lumbar spine, hip and trunk. (4) Chronic non-specific low back pain sufferers exhibited altered motor adaptability while doing a variety of repetitive functional tasks like flexion, extension, lifting, walking, sit-to-stand-to-sit motions. (5) The chiropractic spinal examination at Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka is thorough to record just how much low back pain is affecting your daily activities with a goal to get you back to doing them again with the least possible trouble.

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Listen to the PODCAST with Dr. Matt Alexander on the Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he explains the effectiveness and gentleness of the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management for two patients with spinal stenosis, a condition shared by a lot of people that tends to affect motion.

Make your next Sitka chiropractic appointment with Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka. When back pain has affected the way you move, walk, even think about moving, etc., come to Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka for not only back pain relief but also a return to more natural kinematic motion.