Largo Back Pain Linked with Sarcopenia and Back Muscle Degeneration
Sarcopenia finds many of us one day if we live long enough! Muscle degeneration comes with aging. Many of us will not escape it. It is the degenerative loss of skeletal muscle mass, quality and strength which goes with aging. But back pain severity is more related to degenerated back muscles than sarcopenia. The more back muscle degeneration, the more back pain is experienced. (1) Hollstrom & Associates Inc takes care of older Largo back pain patients to handle their back pain and control its impact on their lives as they age gracefully.
MUSCLE DEGENERATION AND LIFE EXPERIENCE
Aging and life influence muscle strength. A new report states that after experiencing back surgery, post-surgical back pain patients’ MRIs showed muscle degeneration in all of them. Type 2 fatty degeneration was most frequently seen over other types of changes like inflammation and scarring. (2) Muscle degeneration plays a role in patients’ experiences of back pain.
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BACK PAIN AND MUSCLE DEGENERATION IN OLDER FOLKS
Chronic changes in back muscles happen throughout the spine in the long run. Acute changes immediately after injury are seen within a few days. Researchers wanted to know if these changes came before or after the injury. They found that the multifidus muscle decreased quickly after lumbar injury at the level of injury. (3) In the latest study of patients over 65 years old, 40% of chronic low back pain patients had sarcopenia. 26.6% of the control group (those who didn’t have chronic low back pain) had sarcopenia. The skeletal muscle mass was smaller and body fat ratio was much higher in the chronic low back pain group. Lumbar multifidis and erector spine muscles were much lower in the chronic low back pain group, too. (4) Largo chiropractic patients with sarcopenia experience back pain and other problems that chiropractic addresses.
SARCOPENIA PAIN AND OTHER ISSUES’ EFFECTS
Hollstrom & Associates Inc sees males and females with sarcopenia and other conditions in its Largo chiropractic practice. Sarcopenia in patients with lumbar spinal stenosis was much more common in females than males over 70 years of age. In another study, 13.9% of patients had sarcopenia which was accompanied by dyslipidemia and cardiovascular disease. They also had decreased body weight, body mass, grip strength, and walking distance. These patients felt pain more acutely. (5) Your Largo chiropractor knows this and gently manages their experience of pain and its source with gentle chiropractic treatment and exercise.
CONTACT Hollstrom & Associates Inc
Schedule a Largo chiropractic appointment with Hollstrom & Associates Inc for back pain issues related to sarcopenia and back muscle degeneration. Aging, back pain and degeneration will not have to prevent you from enjoying your life!
