Largo Back Muscles Affected By Back Pain
The spine is maintained by many muscles. Back pain and degenerative spine conditions affect those muscles. Chiropractors like yours at Hollstrom & Associates Inc deal with both the degenerative spinal pain condition as well as the associated degenerated spine muscles. Largo chiropractic back pain treatment plans incorporate pain-relieving methods for both the spine and its musculature.
BACK PAIN AND MUSCLES’ RESPONSES
Back pain affects back muscles. Different Largo back pain conditions affect different Largo back muscles, too. Paraspinal muscles present different responses to spinal degenerative conditions. Alterations in the lumbar spine paraspinal muscles of low back pain patients have been described. Wasting of the multifidus muscles in patients with back pain, lumbar radiculopathy, and lumbar degenerative kyphosis are specifically documented. Intensified fat infiltration of the multifidus muscle is also seen in patients with lumbar radiculopathy and lumbar degenerative kyphosis. (1) In a report on 78 patients with either degenerative lumbar spondylolisthesis or degenerative lumbar kyphosis, researchers documented these degenerative muscle patterns. The multifidus muscle is explained as the stabilizer of the lumbar spine segments while the erector spinae muscles tend to be seen as the stabilizers of spinal sagittal balance. Multifidus muscle degeneration was more significant in the degenerative lumbar spondylolisthesis patients. Erector spinae degeneration was more significant in the degenerative lumbar kyphosis patients as well as more directly connected to the severity of spinal kyphosis curvature. (2) Continuous chronic low back pain sufferers as compared to non-continuous and recurrent low back pain sufferers were documented to have greater EMG activity in erector spinae and multifidus muscles in extension. (3) Your Largo chiropractor at Hollstrom & Associates Inc takes great care in addressing these variations.
BACK PAIN AND BACK MUSCLES: STABILITY
Hollstrom & Associates Inc also notes back pain and muscle response on spinal stability. Researchers explained that chronic low back pain impairs spinal stability of its sufferers. In examining the activation patterns of the latissimus dorsi, gluteus maximus, and upward scapular rotation muscles of chronic LBP patients, researchers discovered a significant increase in upward scapular rotation in all shoulder abduction positions on both sides. The left side was more affected than the right. Further, they found greater latissimus dorsi muscle activities and decreased gluteus maximus activities in chronic low back pain. (4) Spinal manipulation is described as eliciting transient physiological responses of which paraspinal muscle activity and muscle spindle responses are included. (5) Your Largo chiropractor will carefully note these responses when treating your spine as well as in setting exercises to address weaknesses.
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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Paulette Hugulet on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson. She describes her use of spinal manipulation, namely the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management, for a 77-year-old patient to reduce pain and better her muscle function and strength.
