Elgin Stability is Important for Back Painand for Coping Today

Just a quick note on the current COVID-19. The CDC recommendations regarding how to cope are good. Take care of yourself, EXERCISE, eat healthy, breathe, connect, and hope. Connected Chiropractic endorses the same…and also suggests that you see your Elgin chiropractor for extra stabilization and balance!

 

From https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/about/coping.html

Now, let us consider exercise to not only stabilize YOU and your fellow Elgin chiropractic patients during times like these may provoking, but exercise to stabilize your spine during and after Elgin 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 disruption of balance or the sense of stability is often noticed in or described by musculoskeletal pain patients who have back pain and neck pain. For this reason, Connected Chiropractic observes every chiropractic patient meticulously throughout their entire visit from the time you walk through the front door, down the hall to your treatment room, and out the door again. Observation is a valuable tool in the management of back pain and related leg pain, Elgin neck pain and any related arm pain. Researchers examined this topic of balance and its disruption, too. New studies reported on patients’ gait speed, their “timed up and go test” ability, step test and “sit-to-stand test.” Connected Chiropractic likes these tests. Some of our Elgin chiropractic patients will wonder what we’re examining when we ask them to sit in a chair and stand up from the chair and time them! We chiropractors are a curious group! Trials like these reveal to your Elgin chiropractor much about your spinal condition. A recent analysis of similar studies stated that manual therapy like spinal manipulation used at Connected Chiropractic improved short-term stability measures. (1) Be certain more studies like these are ongoing, and one specifically looking at how Cox® Technic Flexion Distraction affects these tests and eventually the balance and stability of back pain patients is in its first trial.

BALANCE AND FALLS

Many trials have previously documented that numerous chronic musculoskeletal pain patients experience falls and have balance issues. That is a big issue for older patients with such musculoskeletal pain as they manytimes also have stiffer, less coordinated gait, and poorer balance and muscle strength. (1) Connected Chiropractic recommends exercise for balance and stability.

EXERCISE FOR STABILITY AND BALANCE

The lumbar spine multifidus muscle is a recognized and most critical stabilizer for the spine. Soccer players know this! Researchers examined their multifidus muscles during the soccer season. At rest while lying down, these players’ multifidus muscle thickness decreased. 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 linked to the lumbar multifidus muscle size. Connected Chiropractic has some exercise recommendations for our Elgin back pain patients to strengthen their multifidus muscles and improve their sense of balance and stability. Connected Chiropractic is ready to show them to you at your Elgin chiropractic appointment!

CONTACT Connected Chiropractic

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 Elgin chiropractic appointment at Connected Chiropractic today. Let Connected Chiropractic play a role in your plan to sustain and improve your stability and balance throughout your back pain or neck pain episode…and throughout this odd time of coronavirus.