Rosenberg Wellness Center Treats Back Pain and Its Inflammatory Process
Red. Swollen. Hot. Painful. Signs of inflammation that no New York City back pain patient desires. Rosenberg Wellness Center offers chiropractic services to decrease back pain by identifying and addressing any associated inflammation.
INFLAMMATION AND BACK PAIN RELATED
How can you deduce if there is inflammation? Like other issues, researchers search for ways to measure it. To measure inflammation, researchers try to find inflammatory biomarkers, biological markers like tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-α), C-reactive protein (CRP), and interleukin-6, interleukin-1β, that exposed an increase. Researchers have discovered that chronic inflammation raised cytokine production and stimulated pro-inflammatory pathways that may lead to non-specific low back pain. (1) Researchers detected systemic inflammation in chronic LBP and may affect transition from acute to persistent low back pain. Particularly, CRP was found elevated in acute low back pain patients and not in control patients. TNF was greater in back pain patients especially in patients with depression. (2) Since researchers have already verified that inflammation is tied to back pain, Rosenberg Wellness Center knows that inflammation must be reduced in order to help reduce New York City back pain.
HOW TO STOP INFLAMMATION
Well, first, know what inflammation does. Researchers made use of lipopolysaccharide (LPS) to simulate intervertebral disc degeneration in experiments. They set out to see what may potentially reduce the generated back pain that comes with it and/or even prevent the degeneration in the first place so we humans do not have to experience low back pain at all! That’s a tall order though, Rosenberg Wellness Center knows. But consider this: researchers utilized LPS to create the degeneration that led to low back pain. They found that procyanidin B3 (PRO-B3) found in our diets blocked the production of inflammatory markers - tumor necrosis factor α (TNF-Α), interleukin-6 (IL-6), prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) and nitric oxide – associated with disc degeneration. It also stopped the loss of the disc’s gelatinous nucleus pulposus cells and structural damage of its anulus fibrosus (outer rings of disc). What does all this signify to researchers seeking a way to stop degenerative disc degeneration (DDD)? PRO-B3 may be looked at as a treatment agent for intervertebral disc degeneration (IVDD). This is a welcome note for those 80% of us adults who are on track to have IVDD, a major cause of low back pain. (3) Another recent paper described that the p38 MAPK inflammatory pathway may be able to delay DDD utilizing the tyrosine kinase inhibitor, Genistein. (4) That’s encouraging for the treatment of New York City back pain and inflammation.
Vitamin D FOR INFLAMMATION
Research says that vitamin D deficiency is linked with low back pain that is stronger in younger women and in those with more severe deficiency. (5) Vitamin D deficiency is connected to lumbar disc disease and more severe low back pain in postmenopausal women. (6) Let us talk about your vitamin D status at your next New York City chiropractic appointment.
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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Sarah Murrow on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson. In this episode, Dr. Murrow and her patient present how the Cox® Technic System alleviated back pain due to disc bulges.
