Manahawkin Back Pain Linked with Sarcopenia and Back Muscle Degeneration
Sarcopenia visits many of us some day if we live long enough! Muscle degeneration accompanies aging. Many of us won’t escape it. Sarcopenia is the degenerative loss of skeletal muscle mass, quality and strength that comes with aging. But back pain severity is more associated with back muscle degeneration than sarcopenia. The more back muscle degeneration, the more back pain is experienced. (1) Manahawkin Chiropractic Center takes care of older Manahawkin back pain patients to cope with their back pain and control its effect on their lives as they age gracefully.
MUSCLE DEGENERATION AND LIFE EXPERIENCE
Aging and life influence muscle strength. A new report states that after experiencing back surgery, post-surgical back pain patients’ MRIs showed muscle degeneration in all of them. Type 2 fatty degeneration was most frequently seen over other types of changes like inflammation and scarring. (2) Muscle degeneration contributes to patients’ experiences of back pain.
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BACK PAIN AND MUSCLE DEGENERATION IN OLDER FOLKS
Chronic changes in back muscles happen throughout the spine eventually. Acute changes immediately after injury are seen within a few days. Researchers set out to figure out if these changes came before or after the injury. They discovered that the multifidus muscle reduced quickly after lumbar injury at the level of injury. (3) In the latest study of patients over 65 years of age, 40% of chronic low back pain patients experienced sarcopenia. 26.6% of the control group (those who didn’t have chronic low back pain) had sarcopenia. The skeletal muscle mass was much lower and body fat ratio was much bigger in the chronic low back pain group. Lumbar multifidis and erector spine muscles were much reduced in the chronic low back pain group, too. (4) Manahawkin chiropractic patients with sarcopenia deal with back pain and other problems that chiropractic tackles.
SARCOPENIA PAIN AND OTHER ISSUES’ EFFECTS
Manahawkin Chiropractic Center has males and females with sarcopenia and other spinal problems in its Manahawkin chiropractic practice. Sarcopenia in patients with lumbar spinal stenosis was much more common in females than males over 70 years of age. In another study, 13.9% of patients had sarcopenia which was accompanied by dyslipidemia and cardiovascular disease. They also had decreased body weight, body mass, grip strength, and walking distance. These patients felt pain more deeply. (5) Your Manahawkin chiropractor understands this and gently handles their experience of pain and its source with gentle chiropractic treatment and exercise.
CONTACT Manahawkin Chiropractic Center
Schedule a Manahawkin chiropractic appointment with Manahawkin Chiropractic Center for back pain issues related to sarcopenia and back muscle degeneration. Aging, back pain and degeneration will not have to prevent you from enjoying your life!
