San Jose Pain and Inflammation Helped by Spinal Manipulation
Pain and inflammation are known partners. Spinal manipulation has been used to reduce spine pain, back pain, neck pain, arm pain, and leg pain. New studies describe how the effect of spinal manipulation may go beyond the spine to potentially control inflammation and its impact on spine pain. Chiropractic Solutions views improvement in our spine pain patients on several fronts: pain reduction, function improvement, etc. The roles of inflammation in back pain and of spinal manipulation in decreasing that pain is key to the San Jose chiropractic treatment plan.
BIOMARKERS
Biomarkers are quantifiable indicators of body function via tests like blood pressure, urine testing, blood testing, imaging, etc. Biomarkers can signify normal and abnormal processes taking place in the body. In the area of back pain, researchers have been looking to blood testable biomarkers like tumor necrosis factor (TNFα), interleukin-1 β (IL-1β), IL-6, IL-2, interferon (IFN), IL-1 receptor antagonist (IL-1RA), TNF soluble receptor type 2 (sTNFR2) and IL-10 to tell the story. A recent biomarker test is brain imaging. What makes brain imaging interesting? Researchers realize that chronic back pain surely alters the spine and believe that it changes the brain structure. Brain imaging is a non-invasive biomarker capable of producing brain resting-state functional connectivity to analyze such alterations. (1) Researchers keep coming up with new tests! Chiropractic Solutions is observing these biomarker findings watchfully.
BIOMARKER TESTING FOR BACK PAIN
As low back pain keeps dominating healthcare as one of the most significant contributors to disability globally, researchers are researching biomarkers and their role in low back pain. Researchers wondered if there was a difference in the inflammatory profiles of nonspecific acute and chronic low back pain sufferers. They found a distinct difference in that there was an imbalance between pro-inflammatory and anti-inflammatory mediator levels leaning toward an overproduction of proinflammatory components in both types of patients. (2) Another report found that C-reactive protein in patients with acute non-specific low back pain and TNF-α in chronic non-specific low back pain patients were higher. (3) These types of tests may help your San Jose chiropractor follow your back pain in a new way.
BIOMARKER TESTING OF BACK PAIN RESPONSE TO SPINAL MANIPULATION
The chiropractic treatment plan at Chiropractic Solutions currently heavily relies on gentle spinal manipulation to ease pain. A blood test study for biomarkers taken at the start of and 2 weeks after such spinal manipulative treatment found significant (though limited and diverse) alterations in the production of several biomarkers in acute and chronic back pain patients. Pain and disability scores fell as well. (4) These are beneficial findings for the implementation of spinal manipulation for back pain. Chiropractic Solutions is excited to learn more about biomarker-level changes with San Jose spinal manipulation!
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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. James Cox on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he discusses how use of chiropractic spinal manipulation and Cox® Technic Flexion Distraction may well go beyond pain relief.
Make your San Jose chiropractic appointment now. Every day, pain and inflammation come through our door together. Our treatment helps reduce their impact on the lives of our San Jose chiropractic patients.
