Manahawkin Stability is Critical for Back Painand for Coping Today

Just a short note on the current COVID-19. The CDC recommendations about best strategies to cope are good. Take care of yourself, EXERCISE, eat healthy, breathe, connect, and hope. Manahawkin Chiropractic Center recommends the same…and adds see your Manahawkin chiropractor for extra stabilization and balance!

 

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

Now, let’s consider exercise to not only stabilize YOU and your fellow Manahawkin chiropractic patients during times like these may provoking, but exercise to stabilize your spine while and following your Manahawkin back pain episodes.

STABILITY AND BALANCE AND BACK PAIN

Stability and balance go hand-in-hand. Stability alludes to how balance is controlled. Inhibited balance control is connected with decreased stability. Balance or rather a disruption of balance or the sense of stability is often noticed in or described by musculoskeletal pain patients like those with back pain and neck pain. Therefore, Manahawkin Chiropractic Center watches each chiropractic patient meticulously during their entire visit door to door. Observation is a valuable tool in the management of back pain and related leg pain, Manahawkin neck pain and any related arm pain. Researchers examined 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.” Manahawkin Chiropractic Center likes these tests. Some of our Manahawkin chiropractic patients will be curious about what we are examining when we have them sit in a chair and stand up from the chair and note how long it takes them to do it! We chiropractors are a curious group! Tests like these tell your Manahawkin chiropractor much about your spinal condition. Another analysis of such studies found that manual therapy like spinal manipulation offered at Manahawkin Chiropractic Center enhanced short-term stability measures. (1) Be confident additional studies like these are underway, and one specifically looking at how Cox® Technic Flexion Distraction influences these tests and eventually the balance and stability of back pain patients is underway.

BALANCE AND FALLS

Many trials have already shown that numerous chronic musculoskeletal pain patients experience falls and have balance issues. That is a big problem for older patients with such musculoskeletal pain as they often also have stiffer, less coordinated gait, and poorer balance and muscle strength. (1) Manahawkin Chiropractic Center recommends exercise for balance and stability.

EXERCISE FOR STABILITY AND BALANCE

The lumbar spine multifidus muscle is a recognized and very vital 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 demonstrated significant change at rest. (2) Australian football players with low back pain were to have the same issue while standing and at rest. (3) Both studies said that body composition and body fat and mass were associated with the lumbar multifidus muscle size. Manahawkin Chiropractic Center has some exercise recommendations for our Manahawkin back pain patients to strengthen their multifidus muscles and improve their sense of balance and stability. Manahawkin Chiropractic Center is ready to give them to you at your Manahawkin chiropractic visit!

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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 showcased.

Schedule your next Manahawkin chiropractic appointment at Manahawkin Chiropractic Center today. Let Manahawkin Chiropractic Center play a role in your plan to maintain and enhance your stability and balance during your back pain or neck pain episode…as well as throughout this odd time of coronavirus.