Carrolltown Back Pain Linked with Sarcopenia and Back Muscle Degeneration
Sarcopenia visits many of us one day if we live long so long! Muscle degeneration comes with aging. Many of us will not avoid it. It’s the degeneration and loss of skeletal muscle mass, quality and strength that comes with aging. But back pain severity is more associated with back muscle degeneration than sarcopenia. The more back muscle degeneration, the more back pain is experienced. (1) Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation treats older Carrolltown back pain patients to cope with their back pain and manage its effect on their lives as they age gracefully.
MUSCLE DEGENERATION AND LIFE EXPERIENCE
Aging and life affect muscle strength. A recent study reports that after experiencing back surgery, post-surgical back pain patients’ MRIs revealed muscle degeneration in all patients. Type 2 fatty degeneration was most often seen over other types of changes like inflammation and scarring. (2) Muscle degeneration contributes to patients’ experiences of back pain.
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BACK PAIN AND MUSCLE DEGENERATION IN OLDER FOLKS
Chronic changes in back muscles occur throughout the spine eventually. Acute changes right after injury are seen within a few days. Researchers wanted to know if these changes came before or after the injury. They found that the multifidus muscle decreased quickly after lumbar injury at the level of injury. (3) In a new study of patients over 65 years of age, 40% of chronic low back pain patients experienced sarcopenia. 26.6% of the control group (those who didn’t have chronic low back pain) were affected by sarcopenia. The skeletal muscle mass was smaller and body fat ratio was much higher in the chronic low back pain group. Lumbar multifidis and erector spine muscles were much reduced in the chronic low back pain group, too. (4) Carrolltown chiropractic patients with sarcopenia experience back pain and other problems that chiropractic tackles.
SARCOPENIA PAIN AND OTHER ISSUES’ EFFECTS
Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation has males and females with sarcopenia and other conditions in its Carrolltown chiropractic practice. Sarcopenia in patients with lumbar spinal stenosis was much more prevalent in females than males over 70 years old. In one study, 13.9% of patients had sarcopenia which was accompanied by dyslipidemia and cardiovascular disease. They also had decreased body weight, body mass, grip strength, and walking distance. These patients felt pain more acutely. (5) Your Carrolltown chiropractor knows this and gently handles their experience of pain and its source with gentle chiropractic treatment and exercise.
CONTACT Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation
Schedule a Carrolltown chiropractic appointment with Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation for back pain issues associated with sarcopenia and degenerated back muscles. Aging, back pain and degeneration don’t have to prevent you from enjoying your life!
