November 2024 Healthy News from Chiropractic Solutions Degenerated Discs and Multifidus Muscles Find Help Here
COMBATING CHRONIC LOW BACK PAIN: A Beneficial Approach to Multifidus Muscle Health
Low back pain is a common health issue, especially for older folks in San Jose, 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 stabilizer of the spine. Studies by Balevi and Gu H. et al., have further studied this connection and emphasized 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 stresses that multifidus muscle health is key for spinal stability and highlights that degeneration, including fatty infiltration, undermines this stability, aggravating back pain. Balevi's research emphasizes the success of targeted rehabilitation exercises in undoing muscle degeneration, thereby enhancing spinal health. (1) Similarly, Gu H. et al.'s research shares the benefits of specific exercises targeting multifidus muscle function in easing low back pain and enhancing spinal health. The authors close with the statement that targeted exercises can improve muscle strength and endurance, finally reversing fatty degeneration and increasing spinal stability. (2) By incorporating 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 little older - may feel a significant reduction in pain and improvement in their quality of life, as evidenced in these studies. Count on Chiropractic Solutions to design just the right exercise plan for 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 ease San Jose chronic back pain.
TIP OF THE MONTH: Strengthen Multifidus Muscles!
Compared with general exercise, motor control exercise with isolated lumbar extension exercise showed greater improvement in multifidus muscle size, composition and function with obvious increased thickness of the multifidus – in addition to improvement in pain, function and quality of life for those back pain sufferers in the study. (3) One easy exercise for the multifidus is simply standing at a counter, turning your foot out, and raising your leg straight back. Easy! Combine 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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