Back Pain Changes Carrolltown Spinal Movement

Ask any Carrolltown back pain sufferer, and s/he will agree: back pain affects movement. Sitting down takes more time. Standing up is slower. Bending over takes lots of thought…or prompts total avoidance. Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation knows back pain changes movements. Researchers continue to study just how and how much it changes movement. With chiropractic care, your Carrolltown chiropractor aims to help you get back the simplicity of movement you had before you experienced back pain.

SPINAL MOVEMENT ALTERED BY BACK PAIN

Patients with low back pain move differently. They often change the way they move to evade pain. They’ll walk differently. They bend differently. Their spinal kinematics – motions – are different. A new study analyzed over 800 papers on the subject of altered kinematics. The authors concluded that the limitation of lumbar spinal mobility in all planes brought on by low back pain was statistically significant. (1) Another study found that the kind of spinal disorder a patient impacted the biomechanics of the sit-to-stand activity. Patients with spinal deformity-related back pain showed greater differences in a variety of biomechanical motions (like hip, spine, and knee torque) compared to patients with non-specific low back pain. (2) Figuring out just how much spinal kinematics are affected by back pain is your Carrolltown chiropractor’s much-loved job.

TESTING SPINAL MOVEMENT

When healthcare providers like your Carrolltown chiropractor examine new low back pain patients, tests like sit-to-stand that assess our new patients’ ability to perform motions that daily activities demand are valuable. Patients with low back pain show considerably altered kinematics, motions, of the spine. (3) Patients with low back pain demonstrated motion changes in the lumbar spine, hip and trunk. (4) Chronic non-specific low back pain sufferers showed altered motor adaptability while doing a variety of repetitive functional tasks like flexion, extension, lifting, walking, sit-to-stand-to-sit motions. (5) The chiropractic spinal examination at Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation is comprehensive to document just how much low back pain is impeding your daily activities with a goal to get you back to doing them again with the least possible trouble.

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Listen to the PODCAST with Dr. Matt Alexander on the Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he describes the effective, gentle treatment with the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management for two patients with spinal stenosis, a condition shared by a lot of people that tends to affect motion.

Schedule your next Carrolltown chiropractic appointment with Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation. When back pain has altered the way you move, walk, even think about moving, etc., make a visit to Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation for not only back pain relief but also a return to more natural kinematic motion.