Murfreesboro Stability is Important for Back Painand for Coping Today

Just a quick note on the current COVID-19. The CDC recommendations about coping are good. Look after yourself, EXERCISE, eat healthy, breathe, connect, and hope. Most Chiropractic Clinic endorses the same…and also suggests that you see your Murfreesboro 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 Murfreesboro chiropractic patients during times like these may triggering, but exercise to stabilize your spine during and after Murfreesboro 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 associated with reduced stability. Balance or rather a loss of balance or the sense of stability is often seen in or described by musculoskeletal pain patients who have back pain and neck pain. For this reason, Most Chiropractic Clinic observes each chiropractic patient meticulously throughout their whole visit from the time you walk in the front door, down the hall to your treatment room, and out the door again. Observation is a helpful tool in the management of back pain and related leg pain, Murfreesboro neck pain and any related arm pain. Researchers studied this topic of balance and its disruption, too. New studies described patients’ gait speed, their “timed up and go test” ability, step test and “sit-to-stand test.” Most Chiropractic Clinic likes these tests. Some of our Murfreesboro chiropractic patients will be curious about what we’re looking for when we have them sit in a chair and stand up from the chair and time them! We chiropractors are an inquisitive group! Tests like these reveal to your Murfreesboro chiropractor much about your spinal condition. Another analysis of such studies found that manual therapy like spinal manipulation used at Most Chiropractic Clinic improved short-term stability measures. (1) Be confident additional studies like these are in progress, and one explicitly examining 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 demonstrated that numerous chronic musculoskeletal pain patients experience falls and have balance issues. That is a big problem for older patients with such musculoskeletal pain as they often also have stiffer, less coordinated gait, and poorer balance and muscle strength. (1) Most Chiropractic Clinic recommends exercise for balance and stability.

EXERCISE FOR STABILITY AND BALANCE

The lumbar spine multifidus muscle is a known and very important stabilizer for the spine. Soccer players know this! Researchers studied their multifidus muscles during the soccer season. At rest while lying down, these players’ multifidus muscle thickness diminished. Those players with low back pain demonstrated 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 noted that body composition and body fat and mass were associated with the lumbar multifidus muscle size. Most Chiropractic Clinic has some exercise recommendations for our Murfreesboro back pain patients to boost their multifidus muscles and increase their sense of balance and stability. Most Chiropractic Clinic is ready to share them with you at your Murfreesboro chiropractic appointment!

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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 highlighted.

Schedule your next Murfreesboro chiropractic appointment at Most Chiropractic Clinic today. Let Most Chiropractic Clinic be part of your plan to maintain and increase your stability and balance throughout your back pain or neck pain episode…as well as throughout this odd time of coronavirus.