Back Pain Changes Groton Spinal Movement

Ask any Groton back pain sufferer, and s/he will agree: back pain changes movement. Sitting down takes more time. Standing up is slower. Bending over takes lots of thought…or triggers total avoidance. Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office knows back pain alters motions. Researchers continue to study just how and how much it changes movement. With chiropractic care, your Groton chiropractor aims to help you get back the simplicity of movement you had before you experienced back pain.

SPINAL MOVEMENT ALTERED BY BACK PAIN

Back pain patients move atypically. They often change the way they move to avoid pain. They will walk differently. They bend differently. Their spinal kinematics – motions – are different. A new study analyzed over 800 papers on the subject of altered kinematics. The authors wound up stating that restricted lumbar spinal mobility in all planes brought on by low back pain was statistically significant. (1) Another study concluded that the kind of spinal disorder a patient affected the biomechanics of the sit-to-stand activity. Patients with spinal deformity-related back pain showed greater differences in a variety of biomechanical motions (like hip, spine, and knee torque) weighed against patients with non-specific low back pain. (2) Determining just how much spinal kinematics are affected by back pain is your Groton chiropractor’s much-loved job.

TESTING SPINAL MOVEMENT

When healthcare providers like your Groton chiropractor examine new low back pain patients, tests like sit-to-stand that check our new patients’ ability to carry out motions demanded by activities of daily living are valuable. Patients with low back pain show considerably altered kinematics, motions, of the spine. (3) Patients with low back pain showed motion changes in the lumbar spine, hip and trunk. (4) Chronic non-specific low back pain sufferers showed altered motor adaptability while doing diverse repetitive functional tasks like flexion, extension, lifting, walking, sit-to-stand-to-sit motions. (5) The chiropractic spinal examination at Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office is thorough to record the extent to which low back pain is affecting your daily activities with a goal to get you back to doing them again with the least possible trouble.

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Listen to the PODCAST with Dr. Matt Alexander on the Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he explains the effectiveness and gentleness of the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management for two patients with spinal stenosis, a condition shared by many people that tends to affect motion.

Make your next Groton chiropractic appointment with Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office. When back pain has affected the way you move, walk, even think about moving, etc., come to Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office for not only back pain relief but also a return to more normal kinematic motion.