Carrolltown Stability is Important for Back Painand for Coping Today

Just a short comment 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. Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation suggests the same…and adds see your Carrolltown chiropractor for extra stabilization and balance!

 

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

Now, let’s consider exercise to not only stabilize YOU and your fellow Carrolltown chiropractic patients during times like these may provoking, but exercise to stabilize your spine while and following your Carrolltown back pain episodes.

STABILITY AND BALANCE AND BACK PAIN

Stability and balance go together. Stability alludes to how balance is controlled. Reduced balance control is linked with less stability. Balance or rather a loss of balance or the sense of stability is often noticed in or reported by musculoskeletal pain patients who experience back pain and neck pain. Therefore, Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation watches every chiropractic patient meticulously during their whole visit door to door. Observation is a valuable tool in the management of back pain and related leg pain, Carrolltown neck pain and any related arm pain. Researchers studied 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.” Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation is fond of these tests. Some of our Carrolltown 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 funny lot! Trials like these tell your Carrolltown chiropractor a lot about your spinal condition. A recent analysis of similar studies reported that manual therapy like spinal manipulation used at Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation enhanced short-term stability measures. (1) Be certain additional studies like these are in progress, and one specifically looking at 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 many chronic musculoskeletal pain patients suffer 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 worse balance and muscle strength. (1) Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation urges our patients to 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 get this! Researchers measured their multifidus muscles throughout soccer season. At rest while lying down, these players’ multifidus muscle thickness diminished. Those players with low back pain exhibited significant change at rest. (2) Australian football players with low back pain were to have the same issue while standing and at rest. (3) Both studies said that body composition and body fat and mass were connected with the lumbar multifidus muscle size. Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation has some exercise recommendations for our Carrolltown back pain patients to boost their multifidus muscles and improve their sense of balance and stability. Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation is ready to share them with you at your Carrolltown chiropractic visit!

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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 Carrolltown chiropractic appointment at Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation today. Let Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation be part of your plan to sustain and increase your stability and balance during your back pain or neck pain episode…as well as in this odd time of coronavirus.