Baton Rouge Stability is Critical for Back Painand for Coping Today

Just a quick note on the current COVID-19. The CDC guidelines regarding how to cope are good. Look after yourself, EXERCISE, eat healthy, breathe, connect, and hope. Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers recommends the same…and adds see your Baton Rouge chiropractor for extra stabilization and balance!

 

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

Now, let us look at exercise to not only stabilize YOU and your fellow Baton Rouge chiropractic patients during times like these may triggering, but exercise to stabilize your spine during and after Baton Rouge back pain episodes.

STABILITY AND BALANCE AND BACK PAIN

Stability and balance go hand-in-hand. Stability refers to how balance is controlled. Inhibited balance control is linked with decreased stability. Balance or rather a loss of balance or the sense of stability is often seen in or reported by musculoskeletal pain patients like those with back pain and neck pain. For this reason, Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers observes every chiropractic patient meticulously during their whole visit from the time you walk through the front door, down the hall to your treatment room, and out the door again. Observation is a helpful tool in the management of back pain and related leg pain, Baton Rouge neck pain and any related arm pain. Researchers studied this topic of balance and its disruption, too. Recent studies reported on patients’ gait speed, their “timed up and go test” ability, step test and “sit-to-stand test.” Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers is fond of these tests. Some of our Baton Rouge chiropractic patients will wonder what we’re looking for when we have them sit in a chair and stand up from the chair and time them! We chiropractors are a funny lot! Tests like these reveal to your Baton Rouge chiropractor a lot about your spinal condition. A recent analysis of such studies reported that manual therapy like spinal manipulation used at Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers improved short-term stability measures. (1) Be confident more studies like these are underway, and one specifically studying how Cox® Technic Flexion Distraction influences these tests and eventually the balance and stability of back pain patients is in its first trial.

BALANCE AND FALLS

Many trials have previously demonstrated that many chronic musculoskeletal pain patients experience 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) Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers recommends exercise for balance and stability.

EXERCISE FOR STABILITY AND BALANCE

The lumbar spine multifidus muscle is a well-known and very important stabilizer for the spine. Soccer players get this! Researchers measured their multifidus muscles throughout soccer season. At rest while lying down, these players’ multifidus muscle thickness diminished. Those players with low back pain showed significant change at rest. (2) Australian football players with low back pain were to have the same issue while standing as well as lying down. (3) Both studies said that body composition and body fat and mass were associated with the lumbar multifidus muscle size. Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers has some exercise recommendations for our Baton Rouge back pain patients to strengthen their multifidus muscles and improve their sense of balance and stability. Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers is ready to give them to you at your Baton Rouge chiropractic appointment!

CONTACT Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers

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 highlighted.

Schedule your next Baton Rouge chiropractic appointment at Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers today. Let Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers be part of your plan to maintain and enhance your stability and balance throughout your back pain or neck pain episode…and throughout this unusual time of coronavirus.