Sitka Back Pain Linked with Sarcopenia and Back Muscle Degeneration
Sarcopenia finds many of us some day if we live long enough! Muscle degeneration comes with aging. Many of us won’t escape it. It’s the degeneration and loss of skeletal muscle mass, quality and strength that goes with aging. But back pain severity is more related to degenerated back muscles than sarcopenia. The more back muscle degeneration, the more back pain is sufferered. (1) Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka treats older Sitka back pain patients to handle their back pain and control its effect on their lives as they age gracefully.
MUSCLE DEGENERATION AND LIFE EXPERIENCE
Aging and life influence muscle strength. A new study reports that after experiencing back surgery, post-surgical back pain patients’ MRIs revealed muscle degeneration in all patients. Type 2 fatty degeneration was most frequently seen over other types of changes like inflammation and scarring. (2) Muscle degeneration plays a role in patients’ experiences of back pain.
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BACK PAIN AND MUSCLE DEGENERATION IN OLDER FOLKS
Chronic changes in back muscles happen throughout the spine eventually. Acute changes immediately after injury are seen within the few days following surgery. Researchers set out to figure out if these changes came before or after the injury. They discovered that the multifidus muscle reduced quickly after lumbar injury at the level of injury. (3) In a new study of patients over 65 years of age, 40% of chronic low back pain patients experienced sarcopenia. 26.6% of the control group (those who didn’t have chronic low back pain) had sarcopenia. The skeletal muscle mass was much lower and body fat ratio was much bigger in the chronic low back pain group. Lumbar multifidis and erector spine muscles were much reduced in the chronic low back pain group, too. (4) Sitka chiropractic patients with sarcopenia experience back pain and other problems that chiropractic tackles.
SARCOPENIA PAIN AND OTHER ISSUES’ EFFECTS
Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka has males and females with sarcopenia and other conditions in its Sitka chiropractic practice. Sarcopenia in patients with lumbar spinal stenosis was much more prevalent in females than males over 70 years old. In one study, 13.9% of patients had sarcopenia which was accompanied by dyslipidemia and cardiovascular disease. They also had decreased body weight, body mass, grip strength, and walking distance. These patients experienced pain more deeply. (5) Your Sitka chiropractor understands this and gently handles their experience of pain and its source with gentle chiropractic treatment and exercise.
CONTACT Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka
Schedule a Sitka chiropractic appointment with Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka for back pain issues associated with sarcopenia and degenerated back muscles. Aging, back pain and degeneration do not have to keep you from enjoying your life!
