Back Pain Changes San Jose Spinal Movement

Ask any San Jose back pain sufferer, and s/he will agree: back pain alters movement. Sitting down takes more time. Standing up is slower. Bending over requires some thought…or prompts total avoidance. Chiropractic Solutions knows back pain changes movements. Researchers continue to study just how and how much it changes movement. With chiropractic care, your San Jose chiropractor aims to help you get back the simplicity of movement you had before you had back pain.

SPINAL MOVEMENT ALTERED BY BACK PAIN

Patients with low back pain move atypically. They often change the way they move to evade pain. They will walk differently. They turn around differently. Their spinal kinematics – motions – are different. A recent study analyzed over 800 papers on this topic of altered kinematics. The authors wound up stating that the limitation of lumbar spinal mobility in all planes brought on by low back pain was statistically significant. (1) Another study concluded that the type of spinal disorder a patient impacted the biomechanics of the sit-to-stand activity. Patients with spinal deformity-related back pain demonstrated greater differences in an array of biomechanical motions (like hip, spine, and knee torque) weighed against patients with non-specific low back pain. (2) Determining just how much spinal kinematics are impacted by back pain is the job your San Jose chiropractor enjoys most.

TESTING SPINAL MOVEMENT

When healthcare professional like your San Jose chiropractor examine new low back pain patients, tests like sit-to-stand that assess our new patients’ ability to carry out motions that daily activities demand are valuable. Patients with low back pain show greatly altered kinematics, motions, of the spine. (3) Patients with low back pain showed motion changes in the lumbar spine, hip and trunk. (4) Chronic non-specific low back pain sufferers exhibited altered motor adaptability while performing a variety of repetitive functional tasks like flexion, extension, lifting, walking, sit-to-stand-to-sit motions. (5) The chiropractic spinal examination at Chiropractic Solutions is thorough to document just how much low back pain is impeding your daily activities with a goal to get you back to doing them again with the least possible difficulty.

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Listen to the PODCAST with Dr. Matt Alexander on the Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he explains the effective, gentle treatment with the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management for two patients with spinal stenosis, a condition shared by many people that tends to affect motion.

Schedule your next San Jose chiropractic appointment with Chiropractic Solutions. When back pain has affected the way you move, walk, even think about moving, etc., make a visit to Chiropractic Solutions for not only back pain relief but also a return to more normal kinematic motion.