The Spinal Connections: Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office Delivers Spinal Manipulation Which Shows Lower Limb Strength Improvement
It is all connected. The spine, the hips, the knees, the legs, the feet, the toes. In recent published articles, the connection between spinal manipulation and the relief of lower limb pain and weakness and imbalance are explored. Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office has noticed such relief. The research contributes to the discussion with such Groton chiropractic patients that there’s hope for their condition.
LOWER LIMB STRENGTH IMPROVEMENT
Groton chiropractic patients seek care at Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office with usually one pain issue and don’t even note other issues until we find them together via the spinal exam. We are manytimes detectives together! The chiropractic exam can discover clues to the condition at hand, clues that often are painful or weak and, thankfully, also resolve with chiropractic treatment. Lower limb weakness is often disregarded by back and leg pain patients. Pain is the attention-getter. One study stated that a single spinal manipulation improved muscle strength (for 30 minutes) and corticospinal excitability (for an hour) to ankle plantar flexor muscles in Taekwondo athletes. (1) Another study of spinal manipulation’s effect on lower limb strength of healthy people showed immediate boost in muscle strength after just one session. The chiropractic spinal manipulation treatment helps relieve the pain and improve the lower limb weakness. The effect is reported to be immediate with just one spinal manipulation. For patients who have hip and knee weakness yet otherwise healthy, the strength improvement is even larger. (2) Patients at Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office have noticed just such improvement!
LOWER LIMB IMBALANCE IMPROVEMENT
Other Groton chiropractic patients with limb imbalances in whom one leg is seemingly stronger than the other have found relief with their Groton chiropractic spinal manipulation, too. They may realize they have it or do not realize it until we complete the exam jointly. Once found, limb strength imbalances of a minimum of 15% in hip flexion, extension, abduction or knee flexion cared for with spinal manipulation improved compared to placebo treatment. These strength improvements were recorded after just one lumbar spine manipulation session. (3) Spinal mobilization enhanced hip flexor strength and performance in asymptomatic young adults. (4) These are positive outcomes for our Groton chiropractic patients!
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Listen to this PODCAST by Dr. Kim Lombardy on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he shares the story of a patient with hip pain after a hip replacement surgery to get rid of the hip pain. His treatment with the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management did the trick.
Schedule your next Groton chiropractic care appointment with Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office. Come see how spinal manipulation may improve your spine, hip and knee pain and weakness, back pain, and more! It’s time for you to experience the healing connection!
