Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers Sees Disc Disease in Young People
“You’re young! You don’t have to worry about back pain.” Not true! New research confirms young and old alike must contend with disc degeneration. Most of us will personally have to face disc degeneration’s pain at some point in our lives…or take care of a loved one dealing with its back pain or neck pain effects. Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers is here for young and old alike when Baton Rouge disc degeneration disrupts your quality of life.
DDD STARTS EARLIER THAN ONCE THOUGHT
It is hard to believe, but it’s documented in the medical literature. Disc degeneration begins in the late teens! A study of 18-20 year old healthy air force cadets found that 77% had13 disc degeneration or disc herniation. (1) That is new news! It’s been recorded elsewhere that disc degeneration starts at age 20. Now it’s shown to start in 18 year olds! In this project MRIs were done on all cadets. They all reported no spine pain. On MRI, 30% showed at least one disc was dehydrating, 13% disc narrowing, 49% disc bulging, 18% disc protruding, 8% disc extruding, 13% with spondylolisthesis, and less than 1% even showed asymptomatic vertebral fractures. These findings in young, seemingly healthy people are similar to what would be predictable in adults. (1) It is never too early to take care of the spine! Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers takes care of spines at all ages via spinal manipulation, nutrition and exercise.
WHY?
Researchers (and parents) ask “why?” Why does lumbar spine disc degeneration or cervical spine disc degeneration begin so young? It may be genetic. 80% of patients in a new study had mutations in their collagen-encoding genes. Collagen is important to disc and joint health. Back pain sufferers with a lumbar disc herniation had two variants in their gene encoding for aggrecan, a protein that the end plate depends on for load-bearing. Such a mutation influences the nucleus pulposus, annulus fibrosus and end plates. (2) Of course, the whole reason about why a disc degenerates isn’t fully defined yet. Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers does have ways to restrain and relieve the pain of a Baton Rouge degenerated disc.
INTERRUPTING DISC DEGENERATION, PROMOTING DISC REGENERATION
Researchers explained disc degeneration as a complex connection of mechanical, biochemical, and structural changes at the cellular level, cells that are in an abnormal mechanical environment. Regeneration of such cells would require very specific conditions and would not always be possible. However, traction of 2 to 6 weeks was found to be a sensitive time for regeneration of a degenerated disc. The researchers propose that this could interrupt the above described cascade of changes. (3) Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers uses Cox® Technic to gently produce a positive environment for the healing of degenerated discs by enhancing the area of the spinal canal by 28%, increasing the height of the disc by 17%, and dropping intradiscal pressures to as low as -192mmHg in the low back and dropping pressures in the cervical spine by a mean pressure as much as 1265 mmHg. (4,5) Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers enhances the Cox® Technic system of spinal pain management by adding spinal nutrition (especially disc nutrition supplementation) and exercise to optimize the relief and clinical outcome for Baton Rouge back pain patients.
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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Paxton Schofield on The Back Doctors’ Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson who discussed his care of arthritis and degeneration with Cox® Technic.
Schedule your Baton Rouge chiropractic appointment at Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers for your spine’s health. You may not be as young as you think for back pain, and you are certainly not too young to take care of your spine. A Baton Rouge chiropractic treatment plan of spinal manipulation, nutrition and exercise can benefit all ages of back pain and neck pain sufferers due to disc degeneration.
