Most Chiropractic Clinic Treats Back Pain and Its Inflammatory Process
Red. Swollen. Hot. Painful. Signs of inflammation that no Murfreesboro back pain patient wants to suffer. Most Chiropractic Clinic offers chiropractic services to decrease back pain by recognizing and addressing any related inflammation.
INFLAMMATION AND BACK PAIN RELATED
How can you tell if there’s inflammation? Like other issues, researchers look for ways to measure it. To measure inflammation, researchers look for inflammatory biomarkers, biological markers like tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-α), C-reactive protein (CRP), and interleukin-6, interleukin-1β, that exposed an increase. Researchers have discovered that chronic inflammation increased cytokine production and triggered pro-inflammatory pathways that may cause non-specific low back pain. (1) Researchers detected systemic inflammation in chronic LBP and may affect transition from acute to persistent low back pain. Specifically, CRP was found elevated in acute low back pain patients and not in control patients. TNF was higher in back pain patients particularly in patients with depression. (2) Since researchers have already documented that inflammation is tied to back pain, Most Chiropractic Clinic knows that inflammation must be reduced to help in reducing Murfreesboro back pain.
HOW TO STOP INFLAMMATION
Well, first, know what inflammation does. Researchers applied lipopolysaccharide (LPS) to simulate intervertebral disc degeneration in experiments. They set out to see what may potentially reduce the produced back pain that comes with it and/or even prevent the degeneration in the first place so we humans don’t have to suffer low back pain at all! That’s a tall order though, Most Chiropractic Clinic knows. But consider this: researchers used LPS to establish the degeneration that preceded low back pain. They discovered that procyanidin B3 (PRO-B3) seen in our diets blocked the production of inflammatory markers - tumor necrosis factor α (TNF-Α), interleukin-6 (IL-6), prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) and nitric oxide – associated with disc degeneration. It also stopped the loss of the disc’s gelatin nucleus pulposus cells and structural damage of its anulus fibrosus (outer rings of disc). What does all this mean to researchers seeking a way to prevent degenerative disc degeneration (DDD)? PRO-B3 may be looked at as a treatment agent for intervertebral disc degeneration (IVDD). This is a welcome bit of information for those 80% of us adults who are likely to experience IVDD, a major cause of low back pain. (3) Another recent paper explained that the p38 MAPK inflammatory pathway may be a way to postpone DDD utilizing the tyrosine kinase inhibitor, Genistein. (4) That is encouraging for the treatment of Murfreesboro back pain and inflammation.
Vitamin D FOR INFLAMMATION
Research says that vitamin D deficiency is associated with low back pain that is stronger in younger women and in those with more severe deficiency. (5) Vitamin D deficiency is connected to lumbar disc disease and more severe low back pain in postmenopausal women. (6) Let us talk about your vitamin D status at your next Murfreesboro chiropractic appointment.
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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Sarah Murrow on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson. In this episode, Dr. Murrow and her patient present how the Cox® Technic System alleviated back pain due to disc bulges.
