November 2024 Healthy News from Young Chiropractic Degenerated Discs and Multifidus Muscles Find Help Here
COMBATING CHRONIC LOW BACK PAIN: A Helpful Approach to Multifidus Muscle Health
Low back pain is a common health concern, particularly for older folks in Easley, and can be contributed to by multifidus muscle degeneration. Research has reported that chronic low back pain is associated with disc degeneration and fatty infiltration of the multifidus muscle, a key stabilizing force in the spine. Studies by Balevi and Gu H. et al., have further studied this connection and highlighted the significant effect it can have on spinal health and function. Balevi expounds on the intricate relationship between low back pain and the degeneration of the multifidus muscle. The study underscores that multifidus muscle health is key for spinal stability and highlights that degeneration, including fatty infiltration, undermines this stability, exacerbating back pain. Balevi's research stresses the success of targeted rehabilitation exercises in reversing muscle degeneration, thereby improving spinal health. (1) Relatedly, Gu H. et al.'s research shares the benefits of specific exercises targeting multifidus muscle function in alleviating low back pain and enhancing spinal health. The authors close with the statement that targeted exercises can enhance muscle strength and endurance, finally reversing fatty degeneration and promoting spinal stability. (2) By combining these exercises into an overall chiropractic treatment plan encompassing gentle, safe chiropractic adjustments with Cox® Technic, chronic low back pain sufferers - even those who are a bit older - may feel a significant decrease in pain and increase in their quality of life, as shown in these studies. Count on Young Chiropractic to design just the right exercise plan to help you!
Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Tony Barton on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson about the use of gentle, safe treatment protocols of The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management to reduce Easley chronic back pain.
TIP OF THE MONTH: Strengthen Multifidus Muscles!
Compared with general exercise, motor control exercise with isolated lumbar extension exercise demonstrated greater improvement in multifidus muscle size, composition and function with obvious increased thickness of the multifidus plus improvement in pain, function and quality of life for participating back pain sufferers. (3) One easy exercise for the multifidus is simply standing at a counter, everting your foot, and lifting your leg straight back. Easy! Mix exercise with spinal manipulation like Cox® Technic, and your weak multifidus muscles (and that pain in your back) will thank you!
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