San Jose Exercise and Manipulation May Help Get Water into Disc
Water is essential to the body. Water makes up about half of the body. The spinal disc has about 80% water. Disc degeneration entails the loss of water and disc hydration. Chiropractic takes care of disc problems like disc degeneration with a variety of approaches. Exercise helps with water diffusion into the disc. Spinal manipulation enhances diffusion of water into the disc. Drinking water cannot hurt either! Chiropractic Solutions implements spinal manipulation to help our spine pain patients experiencing San Jose back pain and neck pain and related arm and leg pain and suggests exercise to support the effects of spinal manipulation to improve the health of the spinal disc.
DIFFUSION OF WATER INTO THE DISC VIA EXERCISE
Can exercise benefit the intervertebral disc in non-specific low back pain sufferers? Researchers described how muscles, tendons and bone do respond positively, so they turned to the disc to see if it would. One new study made use of imaging to see. On T2-weighted MRI imaging after 6 months of exercise in the patient with non specific low back pain, the researchers did not discover a benefit; however, at 3 months the imaging exhibited higher L5S1 diffusion coefficients. They explained that other types of low back pain sufferers may respond differently. (1) That’s noteworthy. The increased 'apparent diffusion coefficients' is promising yet when we look at other articles about diffusion of water into the disc. Wong explained that non-specific low back pain patients who responded with greater than 30% relief to spinal manipulation therapy compared with non-responders demonstrated a higher apparent diffusion coefficient for disc diffusion of water. (2) If exercise can boost that even a bit, it has a place in back and neck pain management. At the very least, a San Jose back pain sufferer may well improve the chances of responding to conservative care by raising the water content of disc with exercise and spinal manipulation!
San Jose SPINAL MANIPULATION AND WATER DIFFUSION INTO THE DISC
Studies of manual therapy and traction effects on the intervertebral disc in back pain patients demonstrated that there is an effect on the physiology (the structure and function) of the disc mainly via water diffusion and molecular transport. Both of these are important for a healthy disc. (3) Beattie stated that changes in the water diffusion within the the L1-2, L2-3, and L5S1 discs were appreciated after just one treatment of spinal manipulation. (4) Chiropractic Solutions utlilizes the gentle distraction treatment called Cox Technic spinal manipulation to make a push-pull-pumping effect on the disc and its endplates to encourage the disc to imbibe fluid into the disc help our San Jose spine pain patients.
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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. James Cox on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he further discusses the process of disc degeneration and how Cox® Technic Flexion Distraction helps in its care via manipulation.
Make your San Jose chiropractic appointment now. Your body survives on water. Disc degeneration is a loss of water. Chiropractic Solutions guides San Jose chiropractic patients toward healthier discs with spinal manipulation and exercise to enhance water content.
