The Spinal Connections: Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation Delivers Spinal Manipulation Which Shows Lower Limb Strength Improvement
It is all connected. The spine, the hips, the knees, the legs, the feet, the toes. In newer published articles, the connection between spinal manipulation and the relief of lower limb pain and weakness as well as imbalance are investigated. Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation has noticed such relief. The research contributes to the discussion with such Carrolltown chiropractic patients that there’s hope for their condition.
LOWER LIMB STRENGTH IMPROVEMENT
Carrolltown chiropractic patients seek care at Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation with usually one pain issue and don’t even note other issues until we find them together via the spinal exam. We are manytimes detectives together! The chiropractic examination can discover clues to the condition at hand, clues that often are painful or weak and, thankfully, also resolve with chiropractic treatment. Lower limb weakness is manytimes unnoticed by back and leg pain patients. Pain is the attention-getter. One study reported that a single spinal manipulation improved muscle strength (for 30 minutes) and corticospinal excitability (for an hour) to ankle plantar flexor muscles in Taekwondo athletes. (1) Another study of spinal manipulation’s effect on lower limb strength of healthy people displayed immediate boost in muscle strength after just one session. The chiropractic spinal manipulation treatment helps ease the pain and increase the lower limb weakness. The effect is found to be immediate with just one spinal manipulation. For patients who experience hip and knee weakness yet otherwise healthy, the strength improvement is even bigger. (2) Patients at Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation have reported just such improvement!
LOWER LIMB IMBALANCE IMPROVEMENT
Other Carrolltown chiropractic patients with limb imbalances for whom one leg is seemingly stronger than the other have noticed relief with their Carrolltown chiropractic spinal manipulation, also. They may know they have it or don’t realize it until we complete the exam jointly. Once discovered, limb strength imbalances of at least 15% in hip flexion, extension, abduction or knee flexion cared for with spinal manipulation improved compared to placebo treatment. These strength improvements were noted after just one lumbar spine manipulation session. (3) Spinal mobilization improved hip flexor strength and performance in asymptomatic young adults. (4) These are positive results for our Carrolltown chiropractic patients!
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Check out this PODCAST by Dr. Kim Lombardy on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he shares the story of a patient with hip pain after a hip replacement surgery to get rid of the hip pain. His care with the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management got the job done.
Schedule your next Carrolltown chiropractic care appointment with Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation. Come find out how spinal manipulation may better your spine, hip and knee pain and weakness, back pain, and more! It’s time for you to experience the healing connection!
