Groton Exercise and Manipulation May Help Get Water into Disc

January 28, 2021

Water is essential to the body. The body is composed of around 50% water. The spinal disc is composed of about 80% water. Disc degeneration involves the loss of water and disc hydration. Chiropractic manages disc problems like disc degeneration with a variety of approaches. Exercise helps with water diffusion into the disc. Spinal manipulation boosts diffusion of water into the disc. Drinking water cannot but help! Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office implements spinal manipulation to help our spine pain patients experiencing Groton back pain and neck pain and related leg and arm pain and suggests exercise to support the effects of spinal manipulation to improve the health of the spinal disc.

DIFFUSION OF WATER INTO THE DISC VIA EXERCISE

Can exercise help the intervertebral disc in non-specific low back pain sufferers? Researchers described how muscles, tendons and bone do respond well, so they looked at the disc to see if it does. One new study employed imaging to find out. On T2-weighted MRI imaging after six months of exercise in the patient with non specific low back pain, the researchers didn’t uncover a benefit though at 3 months the imaging exhibited higher L5S1 diffusion coefficients. They stated that other types of low back pain sufferers may respond differently. (1) Interesting. The increased 'apparent diffusion coefficients' is promising yet when we read other articles about diffusion of water into the disc. Wong explained that non-specific low back pain patients who responded with greater than 30% relief to spinal manipulation therapy compared with non-responders showed a higher apparent diffusion coefficient for diffusion of water into the disc. (2) If exercise can enhance that even a little, it has a spot in back and neck pain management. If nothing else, a Groton back pain sufferer may well increase the odds of responding to conservative care by maximizing the water content of disc with exercise and spinal manipulation!

Groton SPINAL MANIPULATION AND WATER DIFFUSION INTO THE DISC

Studies of manual therapy and traction effects on the intervertebral disc in back pain patients demonstrated that there is an effect on the physiology (the structure and function) of the disc primarily via water diffusion and molecular transport. Both of these are vital for a healthy disc. (3) Beattie wrote that changes in the water diffusion within the discs at L1-2, L2-3, and L5S1 were appreciated after only one treatment of spinal manipulation. (4) Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office utlilizes the gentle distraction treatment called Cox Technic spinal manipulation to create a push-pull-pumping effect on the disc and its endplates to encourage imbibition of fluid into the disc help our Groton spine pain patients.

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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. James Cox on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he further describes the process of disc degeneration and how Cox® Technic Flexion Distraction helps in its care via manipulation.

Set up your Groton chiropractic appointment now. Your body survives on water. Disc degeneration is a loss of water. Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office guides Groton chiropractic back pain sufferers toward healthier discs with spinal manipulation and exercise to coost water content.

Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office uses spinal manipulation and exercise to boost the diffusion of water into the disc which helps the health of the disc.