Largo Stability is Important for Back Painand for Coping Today
Just a quick note on the current COVID-19. The CDC recommendations about best strategies to cope are good. Look after yourself, EXERCISE, eat healthy, breathe, connect, and hope. Hollstrom & Associates Inc recommends the same…and also suggests that you see your Largo chiropractor for extra stabilization and balance!
From https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/about/coping.html
Now, let us look at exercise to not only stabilize YOU and your fellow Largo chiropractic patients during times like these may triggering, but exercise to stabilize your spine during and after Largo back pain episodes.
STABILITY AND BALANCE AND BACK PAIN
Stability and balance go hand-in-hand. Stability alludes to how balance is controlled. Inhibited balance control is associated with reduced stability. Balance or rather a disruption of balance or the sense of stability is often noticed in or described by musculoskeletal pain patients like those with back pain and neck pain. For this reason, Hollstrom & Associates Inc observes each chiropractic patient carefully during their whole 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 helpful tool in the management of back pain and related leg pain, Largo neck pain and any related arm pain. Researchers examined this topic of balance and its disruption, too. New studies described patients’ gait speed, their “timed up and go test” ability, step test and “sit-to-stand test.” Hollstrom & Associates Inc is fond of these tests. Some of our Largo chiropractic patients will be curious about what we’re examining when we ask them to sit in a chair and stand up from that position and note how long it takes them to do it! We chiropractors are an inquisitive group! Tests like these reveal to your Largo chiropractor much about your spinal condition. A recent analysis of such studies stated that manual therapy like spinal manipulation used at Hollstrom & Associates Inc enhanced short-term stability measures. (1) Be confident additional studies like these are underway, and one explicitly looking at how Cox® Technic Flexion Distraction influences these tests and eventually the balance and stability of back pain patients is in an initial clinical trial.
BALANCE AND FALLS
Many trials have already shown that many chronic musculoskeletal pain patients suffer falls and have balance issues. That is a foremost problem for older patients with such musculoskeletal pain as they often also have stiffer, less coordinated gait, and poorer balance and muscle strength. (1) Hollstrom & Associates Inc recommends exercise for balance and stability.
EXERCISE FOR STABILITY AND BALANCE
The lumbar spine multifidus muscle is a recognized and very critical stabilizer for the spine. Soccer players know this! Researchers examined their multifidus muscles during the soccer season. At rest while lying down, these players’ multifidus muscle thickness diminished. Those players with low back pain exhibited 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 connected with the lumbar multifidus muscle size. Hollstrom & Associates Inc has some exercise recommendations for our Largo back pain patients to boost their multifidus muscles and improve their sense of balance and stability. Hollstrom & Associates Inc is ready to share them with you at your Largo chiropractic appointment!
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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 highlighted.
Schedule your next Largo chiropractic appointment at Hollstrom & Associates Inc today. Let Hollstrom & Associates Inc play a role in your plan to sustain and improve your stability and balance throughout your back pain or neck pain episode…and throughout this odd time of coronavirus.
