Sitka Pain and Inflammation Helped by Spinal Manipulation
Pain and inflammation are known companions. Spinal manipulation has been utilized to decrease spine pain, back pain, neck pain, arm pain, and leg pain. New studies show that the effect of spinal manipulation may go beyond the spine to potentially control inflammation and its influence on spine pain. Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka views improvement in our spine pain patients in several ways: pain reduction, function improvement, etc. The functions of inflammation in back pain and of spinal manipulation in reducing that pain is central to the Sitka chiropractic treatment plan.
BIOMARKERS
Biomarkers are measurable indicators of body function via tests like blood pressure, urine testing, blood testing, imaging, etc. Biomarkers can indicate normal and abnormal processes occurring in the body. In the area of back pain, researchers have been scrutinizing blood testable biomarkers like tumor necrosis factor (TNFα), interleukin-1 β (IL-1β), IL-6, IL-2, interferon (IFN), IL-1 receptor antagonist (IL-1RA), TNF soluble receptor type 2 (sTNFR2) and IL-10 to related the story. A newer biomarker test is brain imaging. Why brain? Researchers recognize that chronic back pain surely alters the spine and suggest that it changes the brain structure. Brain imaging is a non-invasive biomarker capable of producing brain resting-state functional connectivity to analyze such alterations. (1) Researchers keep thinking up new tests! Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka is observing these biomarker findings carefully.
BIOMARKER TESTING FOR BACK PAIN
As low back pain continues to dominate healthcare as one of the greatest contributors to disability around the globe, researchers are studying biomarkers and their role in low back pain. Researchers wondered if there was a difference in the inflammatory profiles of nonspecific acute and chronic low back pain sufferers. They discovered a distinct difference in that there was a difference between pro-inflammatory and anti-inflammatory mediator levels noting an overproduction of proinflammatory components in both types of patients. (2) Another study revealed that C-reactive protein in patients with acute non-specific low back pain and TNF-α in chronic non-specific low back pain patients were higher. (3) These types of tests may help your Sitka chiropractor follow your back pain in a new way.
BIOMARKER TESTING OF BACK PAIN RESPONSE TO SPINAL MANIPULATION
The chiropractic treatment plan at Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka currently is based on gentle spinal manipulation to ease pain. A blood test study for biomarkers taken at the beginning of and 2 weeks after such spinal manipulative treatment found significant (though limited and diverse) alterations in the production of several biomarkers in acute and chronic back pain patients. Pain and disability scores dropped too. (4) These are encouraging findings for the use of spinal manipulation for back pain. Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka is excited to see more information about biomarker-level changes with Sitka spinal manipulation!
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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. James Cox on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he discusses how use of chiropractic spinal manipulation and Cox® Technic Flexion Distraction may well surpass pain relief.
Set up your Sitka chiropractic appointment now. Every day, pain and inflammation come to our clinic together. Our treatment helps reduce their influence on the lives of our Sitka chiropractic patients.
