“You’re young! You do not have to worry about
back pain.” Not true! New research shows that young and old alike
must contend with disc degeneration. Most of us will personally have
to face disc degeneration’s pain at some point in our lives…or help a loved one dealing with its back pain or neck pain
effects. Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation is here for young and
old alike when Carrolltown disc degeneration interferes with your life.
DDD STARTS EARLIER THAN ONCE THOUGHT
It is hard to believe, but it’s reported
in the medical literature. Disc degeneration begins in the late
teens! A study of 18-20 year old healthy
air force cadets found that 77% showed
disc degeneration or disc herniation. (1) That’s a new
discovery! It’s been written
elsewhere that disc degeneration starts at
age 20. Now it’s shown to appear
in 18 year olds! In this project MRIs were done on
all cadets. They all reported no spine pain. On MRI, 30% showed at least one disc’s
dehydrating, 13% disc narrowing, 49% disc bulging, 18% disc protruding, 8% disc
extruding, 13% with spondylolisthesis, and less than 1% even showed
asymptomatic vertebral fractures. These results in young,
seemingly healthy people are similar to what would be expected
in adults. (1) It’s never too early to start paying attention to the spine! Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation pays
attention to everyone’s spinal issues via spinal manipulation, nutrition
and exercise.
WHY?
Researchers (and parents) ask “why?” Why does
lumbar spine disc degeneration or cervical spine disc degeneration begin so early? Genetics
may play a role. 80% of patients in a new study had mutations
in their collagen-encoding genes. Collagen is vital to disc and
joint health. Lumbar disc
herniation patients had two variants in their gene encoding
for aggrecan, a protein that the end plate depends on for load-bearing. Such a mutation
influences the nucleus pulposus, annulus fibrosus and end plates.
(2) Of course, the whole story of why a disc
degenerates is not fully defined yet. Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation
does have ways to contain and relieve the pain of
a Carrolltown degenerated disc.
INTERRUPTING DISC DEGENERATION, PROMOTING DISC REGENERATION
Researchers described disc degeneration as a
complex connection of mechanical, biochemical, and structural alterations
at the cellular level, cells that exist in an abnormal mechanical environment.
Regeneration of such cells would demand very specific conditions and
wouldn’t always be possible. However, traction of 2 to 6 weeks was
found to be a sensitive time for regeneration of a degenerated
disc. The researchers suggest that this could interrupt the above
described cascade of changes. (3) Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation uses Cox® Technic
to gently produce a positive environment for the healing of degenerated
discs by enhancing the area of the spinal canal by 28%,
increasing the height of the disc by 17%, and decreasing
intradiscal pressures to as low as -192mmHg in the low back and dropping
pressures in the cervical spine by a mean pressure as much as 1265 mmHg. (4,5)
Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation bolsters the Cox® Technic
system of spinal pain management by adding spinal nutrition (particularly
disc nutrition supplementation) and exercise to optimize the relief
and clinical outcome for Carrolltown back pain patients.
CONTACT Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation
Listen to this PODCAST
with Dr. Paxton Schofield on The Back Doctors’ Podcast with Dr.
Michael Johnson who discussed his care of arthritis and
degeneration with Cox® Technic.
Schedule your Carrolltown chiropractic appointment at
Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation for your spine’s health. You may not be as young as you
think for back pain, and you are surely
not too young to look after your spine. A Carrolltown
chiropractic treatment plan of spinal manipulation, nutrition and exercise can benefit all ages of back pain and neck pain sufferers due to
disc degeneration.