Chiropractic Solutions Sees Disc Disease in Young People
“You’re young! You do not have to worry about back pain.” Not true! New research confirms young and old alike must contend 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 disrupts your quality of life.
DDD STARTS EARLIER THAN ONCE THOUGHT
It’s hard to believe, but it is reported in the medical literature. Disc degeneration starts in the late teens! A study of 18-20 year old healthy air force cadets revealed that 77% showed disc degeneration or disc herniation. (1) That is a new revelation! It’s been written in other studies that disc degeneration begins at age 20. Now it is shown to appear in 18 year olds! In this study MRIs were done on all cadets. None of the cadets reported 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 had asymptomatic vertebral fractures. These findings in young, seemingly healthy people are similar to what would be expected 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 start so young? Genetics may play a role. 80% of patients in a new study had mutations in their collagen-encoding genes. Collagen is vital to disc and joint health. Lumbar disc herniation patients had two variants in their gene encoding for aggrecan, a protein that the end plate depends on for load-bearing. Such a mutation influences the nucleus pulposus, annulus fibrosus and end plates. (2) Certainly, the whole story of why a disc degenerates isn’t fully known yet. Chiropractic Solutions does have ways to restrain and relieve the pain of a San Jose degenerated disc.
INTERRUPTING DISC DEGENERATION, PROMOTING DISC REGENERATION
Researchers described disc degeneration as a complex connection of mechanical, biochemical, and structural changes at the cellular level, cells that exist in an abnormal mechanical environment. Regeneration of such cells would require very specific conditions and would not always be possible. However, traction of 2 to 6 weeks was found to be a responsive time for regeneration of a degenerated disc. The researchers propose 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 bolsters the Cox® Technic system of spinal pain management by adding spinal nutrition (particularly disc nutrition supplementation) and exercise to boost the relief and clinical outcome for San Jose back pain patients.
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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Paxton Schofield on The Back Doctors’ Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson who discussed 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 certainly not too young to look after your spine. A San Jose chiropractic treatment plan of spinal manipulation, nutrition and exercise can be good for all ages of back pain and neck pain sufferers struggling with disc degeneration.
