Back Pain Changes McHenry Spinal Movement

Any McHenry back pain sufferer will agree: back pain affects movement. Sitting down takes more time. Standing up is slower. Bending over requires some thought…or prompts total avoidance. OrthoIllinois Chiropractic knows back pain changes motions. Researchers keep studying just how and how much it changes movement. With chiropractic care, your McHenry chiropractor aims to help you get back the simplicity of movement you had before you experienced back pain.

SPINAL MOVEMENT ALTERED BY BACK PAIN

Back pain patients move atypically. They often change the way they move to evade pain. They’ll walk differently. They turn around differently. Their spinal kinematics – motions – are different. A recent study analyzed over 800 papers on the subject 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 found that the type of spinal disorder a patient affected 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) Figuring out just how much spinal kinematics are affected by back pain is the job your McHenry chiropractor relishes most.

TESTING SPINAL MOVEMENT

When healthcare professional like your McHenry chiropractor analyze new low back pain patients, tests like sit-to-stand that assess our new patients’ ability to carry out motions demanded by activities of daily living are valuable. Patients with low back pain reveal 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 doing diverse repetitive functional tasks like flexion, extension, lifting, walking, sit-to-stand-to-sit motions. (5) The chiropractic spinal examination at OrthoIllinois Chiropractic is thorough to record just how much low back pain is impeding your daily activities in order to return you to your activities of daily living 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 describes the effectiveness and gentleness of the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management for two patients with spinal stenosis, a condition shared by a lot of people that tends to affect motion.

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