“You’re young! You don’t have to worry about
back pain.” Not true! New research confirms young and old alike
must deal with disc degeneration. Most of us will personally have
to deal with disc degeneration’s pain at some point in our lives…or take
care of a loved one dealing with its back pain or neck pain
effects. Chiropractic Solutions is here for young and
old alike when San Jose disc degeneration interferes with your life.
DDD STARTS EARLIER THAN ONCE THOUGHT
It’s hard to believe, but it is documented
in the medical literature. Disc degeneration begins in the late
teens! A study of 18-20 year old healthy
air force cadets discovered that 77% had13
disc degeneration or disc herniation. (1) That’s a new
discovery! It has been recorded
in other studies that disc degeneration starts at
age 20. Now it is shown to start
in 18 year olds! In this project MRIs were taken of
all cadets. They all reported no spine pain. The
MRIs revealed that: 30% showed at least one disc was
dehydrating, 13% disc narrowing, 49% disc bulging, 18% disc protruding, 8% disc
extruding, 13% with spondylolisthesis, and less than 1% even showed
asymptomatic vertebral fractures. These findings in young,
seemingly healthy people are similar to what would be predictable
in adults. (1) It’s never too early to start paying attention to the spine! Chiropractic Solutions takes care of spines at all ages via spinal manipulation, nutrition
and exercise.
WHY?
Researchers (and parents) ask “why?” Why does
lumbar spine disc degeneration or cervical spine disc degeneration begin so early? Genetics
may play a role. 80% of patients in a recent study had mutations
in their collagen-encoding genes. Collagen is important to disc and
joint health. Back pain sufferers with a lumbar disc herniation had two variants in their gene encoding
for aggrecan, a protein that the end plate depends on for load-bearing. Such a mutation
affects the nucleus pulposus, annulus fibrosus and end plates.
(2) Of course, the whole story of why a disc
degenerates is not fully defined yet. Chiropractic Solutions
does have methods to restrain and relieve the pain of
a San Jose degenerated disc.
INTERRUPTING DISC DEGENERATION, PROMOTING DISC REGENERATION
Researchers described disc degeneration as a
cascade of mechanical, biochemical, and structural alterations
at the cellular level, cells that exist in an abnormal mechanical environment.
Regeneration of such cells would require very specific conditions and
wouldn’t always be possible. However, traction of 2 to 6 weeks was
found to be a sensitive time for regeneration of a degenerated
disc. The researchers suggest that this could interrupt the above
described cascade of changes. (3) Chiropractic Solutions uses Cox® Technic
to gently create a positive environment for the healing of degenerated
discs by enhancing the area of the spinal canal by 28%,
increasing the height of the disc by 17%, and dropping
intradiscal pressures to as low as -192mmHg in the low back and dropping
pressures in the cervical spine by a mean pressure as much as 1265 mmHg. (4,5)
Chiropractic Solutions takes it one more step with the Cox® Technic
system of spinal pain management by adding spinal nutrition (particularly
disc nutrition supplementation) and exercise to optimize the relief
and clinical outcome for San Jose back pain patients.
CONTACT Chiropractic Solutions
Listen to this PODCAST
with Dr. Paxton Schofield on The Back Doctors’ Podcast with Dr.
Michael Johnson who presented his care of arthritis and
degeneration with Cox® Technic.
Schedule your San Jose chiropractic appointment at
Chiropractic Solutions for your spine’s health. You may not be as young as you
think for back pain, and you are surely
not too young to look after your spine. A San Jose
chiropractic treatment plan of spinal manipulation, nutrition and exercise can benefit all ages of back pain and neck pain sufferers struggling with
disc degeneration.