New York City Exercise and Manipulation May Help Get Water into Disc
Water is central to the body. Water makes up about half of the body. The spinal disc has around 80% water. Disc degeneration entails the loss of water and disc hydration. Chiropractic takes care of disc problems like disc degeneration with various forms of care. Exercise assists water diffusion into the disc. Spinal manipulation enhances diffusion of water into the disc. Drinking water can’t but help! Rosenberg Wellness Center implements spinal manipulation to take care of our spine pain patients experiencing New York City back pain and neck pain and related leg and arm pain and suggests exercise to boost the effects of spinal manipulation to improve the health of the spinal disc.
DIFFUSION OF WATER INTO THE DISC VIA EXERCISE
Can exercise benefit the intervertebral disc in non-specific low back pain sufferers? Researchers described how muscles, tendons and bone do respond well, so they turned to the disc to see if it does. One new study made use of imaging to find out. On T2-weighted MRI imaging after 6 months of exercise in the patient with non specific low back pain, the researchers didn’t uncover a benefit though at 3 months the imaging exhibited increased L5S1 diffusion coefficients. They explained that other types of low back pain sufferers may respond differently. (1) Interesting. The increased 'apparent diffusion coefficients' is promising yet when we look at other articles about diffusion of water into the disc. Wong explained that non-specific low back pain patients who responded with greater than 30% relief to spinal manipulation therapy compared with non-responders showed a higher apparent diffusion coefficient for diffusion of water into the disc. (2) If exercise can boost that even a bit, it has a spot in neck and back pain management. If nothing else, a New York City back pain sufferer may well increase the odds of responding to conservative care by raising the water content of disc with exercise and spinal manipulation!
New York City SPINAL MANIPULATION AND WATER DIFFUSION INTO THE DISC
Studies of manual therapy and traction effects on the intervertebral disc in back pain patients showed that there is an effect on the physiology (the structure and function) of the disc mainly via water diffusion and molecular transport. Both of these are important for a healthy disc. (3) Beattie stated that changes in the water diffusion within the discs at L1-2, L2-3, and L5S1 were appreciated after just one treatment of spinal manipulation. (4) Rosenberg Wellness Center uses the gentle distraction treatment called Cox Technic spinal manipulation to make a push-pull-pumping effect on the disc and its endplates to encourage imbibition of fluid into the disc help our New York City spine pain patients.
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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. James Cox on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he further describes the process of disc degeneration and how Cox® Technic Flexion Distraction helps in its care via manipulation.
Make your New York City chiropractic appointment soon. Your body survives on water. Disc degeneration is a loss of water. Rosenberg Wellness Center guides New York City chiropractic back pain sufferers toward healthier discs with spinal manipulation and exercise to enhance water content.
