New York City Stability is Critical for Back Painand for Coping Today

Just a quick note on the current COVID-19. The CDC guidelines about coping are good. Look after yourself, EXERCISE, eat healthy, breathe, connect, and hope. Rosenberg Wellness Center advocates the same…and adds see your New York City chiropractor for extra stabilization and balance!

 

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

Now, let us look at exercise to not only stabilize YOU and your fellow New York City chiropractic patients during times of stress as COVID-19 may triggering, but exercise to stabilize your spine during and after New York City back pain episodes.

STABILITY AND BALANCE AND BACK PAIN

Stability and balance go together. Stability alludes to how balance is controlled. Inhibited balance control is associated with less stability. Balance or rather a loss of balance or the sense of stability is often observed in or described by musculoskeletal pain patients who have back pain and neck pain. For this reason, Rosenberg Wellness Center watches each chiropractic patient carefully during their whole visit from the time you walk in the front door, down the hall to your treatment room, and out the door again. Observation is a valuable tool in the management of back pain and related leg pain, New York City neck pain and any related arm pain. Researchers studied this topic of balance and its disruption, too. New studies described patients’ gait speed, their “timed up and go test” ability, step test and “sit-to-stand test.” Rosenberg Wellness Center is fond of these tests. Some of our New York City chiropractic patients will be curious about what we’re looking for 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 an inquisitive group! Tests like these reveal to your New York City chiropractor much about your spinal condition. Another analysis of similar studies reported that manual therapy like spinal manipulation used at Rosenberg Wellness Center improved short-term stability measures. (1) Be certain additional studies like these are ongoing, and one specifically studying 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 previously demonstrated that numerous chronic musculoskeletal pain patients suffer falls and have balance issues. That is a foremost problem for older patients with such musculoskeletal pain as they often also have stiffer, less coordinated gait, and worse balance and muscle strength. (1) Rosenberg Wellness Center urges our patients to exercise for balance and stability.

EXERCISE FOR STABILITY AND BALANCE

The lumbar spine multifidus muscle is a recognized and most important stabilizer for the spine. Soccer players get this! Researchers studied their multifidus muscles during the 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 as well as lying down. (3) Both studies said that body composition and body fat and mass were connected with the lumbar multifidus muscle size. Rosenberg Wellness Center has some exercise recommendations for our New York City back pain patients to boost their multifidus muscles and increase their sense of balance and stability. Rosenberg Wellness Center is ready to give them to you at your New York City chiropractic appointment!

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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 highlighted.

Schedule your next New York City chiropractic appointment at Rosenberg Wellness Center today. Let Rosenberg Wellness Center be part of your plan to maintain and enhance your stability and balance during your back pain or neck pain episode…and in this unusual time of coronavirus.