McHenry Diabetics with Disc Degeneration Benefit from Vitamin D
The intervertebral disc is a complex and important part of the spine. It allows pain-free motion of the spine, or not. If the disc degenerates, spinal motion deteriorates, and pain often materializes. This is even more likely for patients with diabetes. It is|It’s]5] just one more concern McHenry diabetic patients need to tackle. The newest research on diabetes and the disc indicates that vitamin D may be of help in the health of the disc. OrthoIllinois Chiropractic is prepared to do just that for McHenry back pain patients in additional to McHenry diabetic patients who also have McHenry back pain.
Diabetes, Vitamin D, and the Disc
Diabetic patients with disc degeneration want to take Vitamin D as it prevents and even treats degenerative changes in their discs. How? By improving the content of TGF-β and IGF-1, two influential growth factor cytokines (proteins circulated by cells that control specific interactions with other cells). (1) OrthoIllinois Chiropractic bets you’ll agree that it is astonishing how the health of the disc gets down to the very cells that make it up|of which it is composed! Those cells need Vitamin D to do their job properly. OrthoIllinois Chiropractic urges McHenry diabetic and non-diabetic patients similarly to look after these cells nutritionally and with McHenry chiropractic spinal manipulation in the form of Cox Technic.
Glucose Status and the Disc
The glucose status also affects the oxygen consumption rate of degenerated discs: degenerative discs in low glucose have higher oxygen consumption rates and degenerative discs in high glucose have lower oxygen consumption rates. Glucose status has no effect on non-degenerated discs. (2) McHenry degenerated discs react in a different way than non-degenerated ones. Of this, OrthoIllinois Chiropractic is positive because OrthoIllinois Chiropractic sees it daily in caring for our McHenry back pain patients.
Oxygen Consumption Rates and the Disc
The degenerative intervertebral disc has a substantially higher oxygen consumption rate - 3 to 5 times greater - than the non-degenerative, normal human disc. The degenerative disc is cellularly different. This oxygen consumption rate factor influences the disc’s cellular behavior and even its tissue’s nutritional status as nutrients are delivered to the disc via the matrix and endplates. This rate of transport of nutrients is affected by the degenerative state of the disc. (2) So when should Vitamin D be taken to protect and care for the McHenry degenerative disc? When the disc is healthy and even more so when it’s not.
Schedule your McHenry chiropractic appointment at OrthoIllinois Chiropractic to discuss the health status of your McHenry spinal discs and how Vitamin D may be of benefit to them whether they are degenerative or not.
