Groton Stability is Important for Back Painand for Coping Today

Just a short comment on the current COVID-19. The CDC recommendations about coping are good. Take care of yourself, EXERCISE, eat healthy, breathe, connect, and hope. Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office suggests the same…and adds see your Groton chiropractor for extra stabilization and balance!

 

From https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/about/coping.html

Now, let’s consider exercise to not only stabilize YOU and your fellow Groton chiropractic patients during times like these may provoking, but exercise to stabilize your spine while and following your Groton back pain episodes.

STABILITY AND BALANCE AND BACK PAIN

Stability and balance go together. Stability alludes to how balance is controlled. Reduced balance control is connected with less stability. Balance or rather a loss of balance or the sense of stability is often seen in or reported by musculoskeletal pain patients who have back pain and neck pain. Therefore, Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office watches each chiropractic patient meticulously during their whole visit door to door. Observation is a valuable tool in the management of back pain and related leg pain, Groton neck pain and any related arm pain. Researchers studied this topic of balance and its disruption, too. Recent studies described patients’ gait speed, their “timed up and go test” ability, step test and “sit-to-stand test.” Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office is fond of these tests. Some of our Groton chiropractic patients will be curious about what we are looking for when we ask them to sit in a chair and stand up from the chair and note how long it takes them to do it! We chiropractors are a funny lot! Tests like these reveal to your Groton chiropractor much about your spinal condition. A recent analysis of such studies stated that manual therapy like spinal manipulation offered at Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office improved short-term stability measures. (1) Rest assured more studies like these are ongoing, and one explicitly examining how Cox® Technic Flexion Distraction alters these tests and ultimately the balance and stability of back pain patients is in an initial clinical trial.

BALANCE AND FALLS

Many trials have previously documented that numerous chronic musculoskeletal pain patients suffer falls and have balance issues. That is a big problem for older patients with such musculoskeletal pain as they manytimes also have stiffer, less coordinated gait, and poorer balance and muscle strength. (1) Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office urges our patients to 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 get this! Researchers measured their multifidus muscles during the soccer season. At rest while lying down, these players’ multifidus muscle thickness decreased. 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 and at rest. (3) Both studies saw that body composition and body fat and mass were associated with the lumbar multifidus muscle size. Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office has some exercise recommendations for our Groton back pain patients to strengthen their multifidus muscles and increase their sense of balance and stability. Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office is ready to show them to you at your Groton chiropractic visit!

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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 showcased.

Schedule your next Groton chiropractic appointment at Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office today. Let Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office be part of your plan to sustain and improve your stability and balance throughout your back pain or neck pain episode…and in this unusual time of coronavirus.