Help for Fort Wayne Back Pain's Fatty Paraspinal Muscles
If you experience chronic back pain, like many other Fort Wayne back pain patients, odds are you’ve heard of paraspinal muscle fatty infiltrate. This spinal issue can cause a great deal of discomfort and can even result in gait disturbances. In this blog post, we'll take a closer look at paraspinal muscle fatty infiltrate and how it is related to lumbar spinal stenosis and its treatment with spinal manipulation available at Aaron Chiropractic Clinic.
WHAT IS PARASPINAL MUSCLE FATTY INFILTRATE?
Paraspinal muscle fatty infiltrate is an accumulation of fat within the muscle tissues located near the spine. Genetics or aging are often culprits of this condition, but it can also be triggered by lifestyle factors like poor nutrition or lack of exercise. It is important to note that paraspinal fatty muscle infiltrate does not always produce symptoms, but if it does, they can include low back pain, stiffness in the lower back and legs, or difficulty walking due to gait disturbances as gait relies on hip muscles like the gluteus medius. A new report explained how the extent to which the gluteus medius is atrophied (degenerated) impacted lumbar spinal stenosis symptomatology. (1) One of the most common spinal problems affecting more than 500 million people over 65 years old, lumbar spinal stenosis, is associated with altered gait as gait relies on robust muscle activity. (2) Fort Wayne chiropractic patients know Aaron Chiropractic Clinic evaluates gait in all our patients during our chiropractic exam.
PARASPINAL FATTY INFILTRATE AND LUMBAR SPINAL STENOSIS
Paraspinal muscle fatty infiltrate can be related to lumbar spinal stenosis—a narrowing of the spinal canal that exerts pressure on nerve roots and causes pain and other symptoms in the lower back and legs – and resulting Fort Wayne back pain. Intervertebral disc degeneration and fatty-infiltrated paraspinal muscles – multifidus, erector spinae, etc. – are related and found to cause chronic low back pain and related issues: the more fat, the more degeneration. (3) Other researchers concured that fat infiltration of the paraspinal muscles like the multifidus muscle may be associated with lower back pain when it was not linked to other factors like a person with back pain who was male, older or has a higher BMI older, male, or having a higher BMI. (4) Aaron Chiropractic Clinic offers alleviating chiropractic treatment for lumbar spinal stenosis and its back pain.
LUMBAR SPINAL STENOSIS & SPINAL MANIPULATION
Treatment options for lumbar spinal stenosis vary depending on severity and the healthcare practitioner who was seen from nutrition, surgery, exercise, drugs, and/or spinal manipulation and mobilization. A study described that one treatment of spinal manipulation was found to significantly reduce spinal stiffness and enhanced the multifidus muscle thickness ratio which lasted for more than 7 days for spinal manipulation responders. (5) Your Fort Wayne chiropractor uses such care for back pain relief, particularly the well-researched chiropractic Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management. Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. James Cox on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he describes how The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management addresses back pain and affiliated muscles.
CONTACT Aaron Chiropractic Clinic
Paraspinal muscle fatty infiltrate is a common condition that can trigger a range of issues including low back pain, stiffness in the lower body, and gait disturbances. It is sometimes associated with lumbar spinal stenosis. If you have any symptoms associated with paraspinal muscle fatty infiltrate or lumbar spinal stenosis, it's time to visit with your Fort Wayne chiropractor at Aaron Chiropractic Clinic about your treatment options so you can find relief as fast as possible. Make your appointment today!
