Largo Pain and Inflammation Helped by Spinal Manipulation
Pain and inflammation are known companions. Spinal manipulation has been utilized to decrease spine pain, back pain, neck pain, arm pain, and leg pain. New studies show that the effect of spinal manipulation may go beyond the spine to possibly mediate inflammation and its influence on spine pain. Hollstrom & Associates Inc sees improvement in our spine pain patients on several fronts: pain reduction, function improvement, etc. The functions of inflammation in back pain and of spinal manipulation in reducing that pain is key to the Largo chiropractic treatment plan.
BIOMARKERS
Biomarkers are quantifiable indicators of body function via tests like blood pressure, urine testing, blood testing, imaging, etc. Biomarkers can signify normal and abnormal processes occurring in the body. In the realm of back pain, researchers have been looking to blood testable biomarkers like tumor necrosis factor (TNFα), interleukin-1 β (IL-1β), IL-6, IL-2, interferon (IFN), IL-1 receptor antagonist (IL-1RA), TNF soluble receptor type 2 (sTNFR2) and IL-10 to related the story. A recent biomarker test is brain imaging. Why brain? Researchers realize that chronic back pain certainly changes the spine and suggest that it changes the brain structure. Brain imaging is a non-invasive biomarker able to produce brain resting-state functional connectivity to study such alterations. (1) Researchers continue coming up with new tests! Hollstrom & Associates Inc is following these biomarker findings watchfully.
BIOMARKER TESTING FOR BACK PAIN
As low back pain keeps dominating healthcare as one of the greatest contributors to disability around the globe, researchers are researching biomarkers and their role in low back pain. Researchers wanted to know if there was a variance in the inflammatory profiles of nonspecific acute and chronic low back pain sufferers. They discovered a distinct difference in that there was an imbalance between pro-inflammatory and anti-inflammatory mediator levels leaning toward an overproduction of proinflammatory components in both types of patients. (2) Another study revealed that C-reactive protein in patients with acute non-specific low back pain and TNF-α in chronic non-specific low back pain patients were elevated. (3) These types of tests may help your Largo chiropractor monitor your back pain in a novel way.
BIOMARKER TESTING OF BACK PAIN RESPONSE TO SPINAL MANIPULATION
The chiropractic treatment plan at Hollstrom & Associates Inc now heavily relies on gentle spinal manipulation to ease pain. A blood test study for biomarkers taken at the beginning of and 2 weeks after such spinal manipulative treatment found significant (though limited and diverse) changes in the production of several biomarkers in acute and chronic back pain patients. Pain and disability scores fell as well. (4) These are encouraging findings for the implementation of spinal manipulation for back pain. Hollstrom & Associates Inc is excited to learn more about biomarker-level changes with Largo spinal manipulation!
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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. James Cox on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he discusses how use of chiropractic spinal manipulation and Cox® Technic Flexion Distraction may well go beyond pain relief.
Schedule your Largo chiropractic appointment today. Every day, pain and inflammation come through our door together. Our treatment helps ease their influence on the lives of our Largo chiropractic patients.
