The Spinal Connections: Chiropractic Solutions 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 new studies, the connection between spinal manipulation and the relief of lower limb pain and weakness as well as imbalance are investigated. Chiropractic Solutions has noticed such relief. The research contributes to the discussion with such San Jose chiropractic patients that there’s hope for their condition.
LOWER LIMB STRENGTH IMPROVEMENT
San Jose chiropractic patients seek care at Chiropractic Solutions with usually one pain issue and don’t even note other issues until we find them together via the spinal exam. We are often detectives together! The chiropractic exam can uncover clues to the condition at hand, clues that frequently are painful or weak and, thankfully, also resolve with chiropractic treatment. Lower limb weakness is manytimes overlooked by back and leg pain patients. Pain is the attention-getter. One study stated that a single spinal manipulation improved muscle strength (for a half hour) and corticospinal excitability (for 60 minutes) to ankle plantar flexor muscles in Taekwondo athletes. (1) Another paper of spinal manipulation’s effect on lower limb strength of healthy people showed immediate increase in muscle strength after just one treatment. The chiropractic spinal manipulation treatment helps ease the pain and improve the lower limb weakness. The effect is found to be immediate with only one spinal manipulation. For patients with hip and knee weakness yet otherwise healthy, the strength improvement is even bigger. (2) Patients at Chiropractic Solutions have noticed just such improvement!
LOWER LIMB IMBALANCE IMPROVEMENT
Other San Jose chiropractic patients with limb imbalances in whom one leg seems stronger than the other have noticed relief with their San Jose chiropractic spinal manipulation, also. They may know they have it or don’t realize it until we go through the exam together. Once discovered, limb strength imbalances of at least 15% in hip flexion, extension, abduction or knee flexion treated with spinal manipulation improved compared to placebo treatment. These strength improvements were recorded after just one lumbar spine manipulation session. (3) Spinal mobilization enhanced hip flexor strength and performance in asymptomatic young adults. (4) These are positive outcomes for our San Jose chiropractic patients!
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Listen to this PODCAST by Dr. Kim Lombardy on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he explains how he helped 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 did the trick.
Schedule your next San Jose chiropractic care appointment with Chiropractic Solutions. Come find out how spinal manipulation may better your spine, hip and knee pain and weakness, back pain, and more! Experience the healing connection yourself!
