McHenry Stability is Critical for Back Painand for Coping Today

Just a quick note on the current COVID-19. The CDC recommendations regarding how to cope are good. Look after yourself, EXERCISE, eat healthy, breathe, connect, and hope. OrthoIllinois Chiropractic advocates the same…and also suggests that you see your McHenry chiropractor for extra stabilization and balance!

 

From https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/about/coping.html

Now, let’s consider exercise to not only stabilize YOU and your fellow McHenry chiropractic patients during times like these may provoking, but exercise to stabilize your spine during and after McHenry back pain episodes.

STABILITY AND BALANCE AND BACK PAIN

Stability and balance go together. Stability alludes to how balance is controlled. Inhibited balance control is associated with reduced stability. Balance or rather a loss of balance or the sense of stability is often noticed in or reported by musculoskeletal pain patients like those with back pain and neck pain. For this reason, OrthoIllinois Chiropractic watches every chiropractic patient meticulously throughout their entire visit from the time you walk in the front door, down the hall to your treatment room, and out the door again. Observation is a valuable tool in the management of back pain and related leg pain, McHenry neck pain and any related arm pain. Researchers examined this topic of balance and its disruption, too. Recent studies reported on patients’ gait speed, their “timed up and go test” ability, step test and “sit-to-stand test.” OrthoIllinois Chiropractic likes these tests. Some of our McHenry chiropractic patients will be curious about what we’re looking for when we have them sit in a chair and stand up from the chair and note how long it takes them to do it! We chiropractors are a curious group! Trials like these tell your McHenry chiropractor much about your spinal condition. Another analysis of such studies stated that manual therapy like spinal manipulation used at OrthoIllinois Chiropractic enhanced short-term stability measures. (1) Be certain more studies like these are in progress, and one specifically looking at how Cox® Technic Flexion Distraction influences these tests and ultimately the balance and stability of back pain patients is in its first trial.

BALANCE AND FALLS

Many trials have previously documented that numerous chronic musculoskeletal pain patients suffer falls and have balance issues. That is a big problem for older patients with such musculoskeletal pain as they often also have stiffer, less coordinated gait, and worse balance and muscle strength. (1) OrthoIllinois Chiropractic recommends exercise for balance and stability.

EXERCISE FOR STABILITY AND BALANCE

The lumbar spine multifidus muscle is a well-known and very important stabilizer for the spine. Soccer players know this! Researchers examined their multifidus muscles throughout soccer season. At rest while lying down, these players’ multifidus muscle thickness diminished. Those players with low back pain demonstrated significant change at rest. (2) Australian football players with low back pain were to have the same issue while standing as well as lying down. (3) Both studies noted that body composition and body fat and mass were linked to the lumbar multifidus muscle size. OrthoIllinois Chiropractic has some exercise recommendations for our McHenry back pain patients to boost their multifidus muscles and increase their sense of balance and stability. OrthoIllinois Chiropractic is ready to give them to you at your McHenry chiropractic visit!

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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Marc Baker on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson. The value of The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management for back pain and neck pain patients’ recovery is showcased.

Schedule your next McHenry chiropractic appointment at OrthoIllinois Chiropractic today. Let OrthoIllinois Chiropractic be part of your plan to sustain and improve your stability and balance throughout your back pain or neck pain episode…as well as throughout this odd time of coronavirus.