Fort Wayne Stability is Important for Back Painand for Coping Today

Just a quick note on the current COVID-19. The CDC guidelines about best strategies to cope are good. Look after yourself, EXERCISE, eat healthy, breathe, connect, and hope. Aaron Chiropractic Clinic advocates the same…and also suggests that you see your Fort Wayne 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 Fort Wayne chiropractic patients during times of stress as COVID-19 may provoking, but exercise to stabilize your spine during and after Fort Wayne back pain episodes.

STABILITY AND BALANCE AND BACK PAIN

Stability and balance go together. Stability refers to how balance is controlled. Reduced balance control is linked with reduced stability. Balance or rather a disruption of balance or the sense of stability is often noticed in or described by musculoskeletal pain patients like those with back pain and neck pain. For this reason, Aaron Chiropractic Clinic observes each chiropractic patient carefully throughout their entire 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, Fort Wayne neck pain and any related arm pain. Researchers studied this topic of balance and its disruption, too. Recent studies reported on patients’ gait speed, their “timed up and go test” ability, step test and “sit-to-stand test.” Aaron Chiropractic Clinic is fond of these tests. Some of our Fort Wayne chiropractic patients will wonder what we are examining when we have them sit in a chair and stand up from the chair and note how long it takes them to do it! We chiropractors are a curious group! Trials like these reveal to your Fort Wayne chiropractor a lot about your spinal condition. A recent analysis of similar studies found that manual therapy like spinal manipulation offered at Aaron Chiropractic Clinic improved short-term stability measures. (1) Be confident more studies like these are in progress, and one explicitly looking at how Cox® Technic Flexion Distraction alters these tests and eventually the balance and stability of back pain patients is underway.

BALANCE AND FALLS

Many trials have previously demonstrated that many chronic musculoskeletal pain patients suffer falls and have balance issues. That is a foremost problem for older patients with such musculoskeletal pain as they manytimes also have stiffer, less coordinated gait, and worse balance and muscle strength. (1) Aaron Chiropractic Clinic recommends exercise for balance and stability.

EXERCISE FOR STABILITY AND BALANCE

The lumbar spine multifidus muscle is a well-known and very critical stabilizer for the spine. Soccer players get 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 showed 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 said that body composition and body fat and mass were connected with the lumbar multifidus muscle size. Aaron Chiropractic Clinic has some exercise recommendations for our Fort Wayne back pain patients to boost their multifidus muscles and increase their sense of balance and stability. Aaron Chiropractic Clinic is ready to show them to you at your Fort Wayne 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 showcased.

Schedule your next Fort Wayne chiropractic appointment at Aaron Chiropractic Clinic today. Let Aaron Chiropractic Clinic be part of your plan to maintain and improve your stability and balance during your back pain or neck pain episode…and throughout this odd time of coronavirus.