Baton Rouge Pain and Inflammation Helped by Spinal Manipulation
Pain and inflammation are known companions. Spinal manipulation has been utilized to decrease spine pain, back pain, neck pain, arm pain, and leg pain. New studies show that the effect of spinal manipulation may go beyond the spine to possibly control inflammation and its impact on spine pain. Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers sees improvement in our spine pain patients on several fronts: pain reduction, function improvement, etc. The roles of inflammation in back pain and of spinal manipulation in reducing that pain is core to the Baton Rouge chiropractic treatment plan.
BIOMARKERS
Biomarkers are measurable indicators of body function via tests like blood pressure, urine testing, blood testing, imaging, etc. Biomarkers can signify normal and abnormal processes taking place in the body. In the area of back pain, researchers have been scrutinizing blood testable biomarkers like tumor necrosis factor (TNFα), interleukin-1 β (IL-1β), IL-6, IL-2, interferon (IFN), IL-1 receptor antagonist (IL-1RA), TNF soluble receptor type 2 (sTNFR2) and IL-10 to related the story. A newer biomarker test is brain imaging. Why brain? Researchers realize that chronic back pain certainly alters the spine and suggest that it alters the brain structure. Imaging of the brain is a non-invasive biomarker able to produce brain resting-state functional connectivity to study such variations. (1) Researchers continue coming up with new tests! Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers is observing these biomarker findings carefully.
BIOMARKER TESTING FOR BACK PAIN
As low back pain keeps dominating healthcare as one of the most significant contributors to disability around the globe, researchers are studying biomarkers and their role in low back pain. Researchers wondered if there was a difference in the inflammatory profiles of nonspecific acute and chronic low back pain sufferers. They found a distinct difference in that there was a difference between pro-inflammatory and anti-inflammatory mediator levels leaning toward an overproduction of proinflammatory components in both types of patients. (2) Another study revealed that C-reactive protein in patients with acute non-specific low back pain and TNF-α in chronic non-specific low back pain patients were higher. (3) These kinds of tests may help your Baton Rouge chiropractor observe your back pain in a novel way.
BIOMARKER TESTING OF BACK PAIN RESPONSE TO SPINAL MANIPULATION
The chiropractic treatment plan at Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers currently is based on gentle spinal manipulation to relieve pain. A blood test study for biomarkers taken at the start of and 2 weeks after such spinal manipulative treatment found significant (though limited and diverse) changes in the production of several biomarkers in acute and chronic back pain patients. Pain and disability scores dropped as well. (4) These are beneficial findings for the use of spinal manipulation for back pain. Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers is excited to learn more about biomarker-level changes with Baton Rouge spinal manipulation!
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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. James Cox on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he describes how use of chiropractic spinal manipulation and Cox® Technic Flexion Distraction may well go beyond pain relief.
Make your Baton Rouge chiropractic appointment today. Daily, pain and inflammation come to our clinic together. Our treatment helps decrease their impact on the lives of our Baton Rouge chiropractic patients.
