Manahawkin Pain and Inflammation Helped by Spinal Manipulation
Pain and inflammation are known partners. Spinal manipulation has been used to decrease spine pain, back pain, neck pain, arm pain, and leg pain. New studies describe how the effect of spinal manipulation may go beyond the spine to potentially control inflammation and its influence on spine pain. Manahawkin Chiropractic Center sees improvement in our spine pain patients in several ways: pain reduction, function improvement, etc. The roles of inflammation in back pain and of spinal manipulation in reducing that pain is key to the Manahawkin chiropractic treatment plan.
BIOMARKERS
Biomarkers are quantifiable indicators of body function via tests like blood pressure, urine testing, blood testing, imaging, etc. Biomarkers can indicate normal and abnormal processes occurring in the body. In the realm of back pain, researchers have been looking to 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 recent biomarker test is brain imaging. Why brain? Researchers realize that chronic back pain certainly alters the spine and believe that it alters the brain structure. Brain imaging is a non-invasive biomarker capable of producing brain resting-state functional connectivity to analyze such alterations. (1) Researchers continue thinking up new tests! Manahawkin Chiropractic Center is observing these biomarker findings carefully.
BIOMARKER TESTING FOR BACK PAIN
As low back pain keeps dominating healthcare as one of the greatest contributors to disability around the globe, researchers are researching biomarkers and their role in low back pain. Researchers wondered if there was a variance in the inflammatory profiles of nonspecific acute and chronic low back pain sufferers. They discovered a distinct difference in that there was a difference between pro-inflammatory and anti-inflammatory mediator levels noting 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 types of tests may help your Manahawkin chiropractor follow your back pain in a new way.
BIOMARKER TESTING OF BACK PAIN RESPONSE TO SPINAL MANIPULATION
The chiropractic treatment plan at Manahawkin Chiropractic Center now heavily relies on gentle spinal manipulation to relieve pain. A blood test study for biomarkers taken at the beginning 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 too. (4) These are beneficial findings for the implementation of spinal manipulation for back pain. Manahawkin Chiropractic Center is excited to see more information about biomarker-level changes with Manahawkin 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 discusses how use of chiropractic spinal manipulation and Cox® Technic Flexion Distraction may well go beyond pain relief.
Set up your Manahawkin chiropractic appointment today. Daily, pain and inflammation come to our clinic together. Our treatment helps ease their influence on the lives of our Manahawkin chiropractic patients.
