Baton Rouge Spine Stability Helped by Breathing and Diaphragm Training
Spinal stability is the basis for spine movement. Spinal stability protects the structures of the nervous system, the spinal cord, and spinal nerve roots. Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers evaluates spinal stability in all our Baton Rouge back pain patients as part of our chiropractic service. Spinal stability relies on strong, stable musculature to perform its job. New research is indicating that the role of the diaphragm and breathing is to support spinal stability.
SPINAL STABILITY
All the numerous parts of the spine figure into spinal stability, even the smallest spinal motion segment’s vertebra (the bony part of the spine). Bones, discs, and ligaments in the spine supply all types of coupled motions of the spine and conduct proprioceptive impulses to the central nervous system which manages muscle tone, movement, and reflexes. If any of the spinal structures are injured or otherwise at risk – like a degenerated disc – spinal instability is possible. (1) That is where your Baton Rouge chiropractor comes onto the scene with chiropractic spinal manipulation and an effective treatment plan including exercise.
BREATHING TRAINING IN SPINAL STABILITY
Chiropractic care at Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers addresses spinal stability with some usual exercise suggestions and explores the use of innovative exercise approaches like breathing that are showing some promise. Maximal abdominal contraction maneuver compared with maximal expiration exercise proved itself better at increasing spinal stability. As a breathing exercise to enhance spinal joint stability, it had a beneficial effect on increasing co-contraction and spine stability as shown by significantly greater muscle thickness of the transverse abdominis and rectus abdominis. (2) Forced breathing exercise therapy improved trunk stability and activities of daily living in chronic low back pain patients. (3) Baton Rouge back pain patients will appreciate how something they do every day – performed with just a little more purpose - may ease their back pain!
DIAPHRAGM TRAINING IN SPINAL STABILITY
Certainly, breathing and the diaphragm are intimately connected, and both offer some hope in tackling spinal stability issues. Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers found some new studies on how diaphragm training manages spinal stability. In a study of rehabilitating athletes with nonspecific low back pain, inserting diaphragm training (breathing) to electrical stimulation therapy was helped improve function, stability, pain, and balance. (4) Diaphragm training significantly reduced the severity of pain and also influenced the thickness of active stabilizers - transversus abdominis, lumbar multifidus muscle - in the lumbar spine. (5) Strong, thick spinal stabilizers are good in managing Baton Rouge back pain.
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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Lee Hazen and Cheri Hazen RN, ICHC, FNLP, LE, on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as they share their combined treatment approach of breathing training and the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management helped a patient find back pain relief.
Schedule your Baton Rouge chiropractic appointment now. Breathing and diaphragm training go a long way in helping keep the spine stable, easing Baton Rouge back pain, and maintaining the foundation of spinal movement well conditioned.
