Amelia Chiropractic Clinic Treats Back Pain and Its Inflammatory Process
Red. Swollen. Hot. Painful. Signs of inflammation that no Fernandina Beach back pain patient desires. Amelia Chiropractic Clinic delivers chiropractic services to decrease back pain by identifying and addressing any associated inflammation.
INFLAMMATION AND BACK PAIN RELATED
How can you tell if there is inflammation? Like other issues, researchers look 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 revealed an increase. Researchers have discovered that chronic inflammation raised cytokine production and activated pro-inflammatory pathways that may cause non-specific low back pain. (1) Researchers detected systemic inflammation in chronic LBP and may influence transition from acute to persistent low back pain. Specifically, 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 recorded that inflammation is tied to back pain, Amelia Chiropractic Clinic knows that inflammation must be reduced to help in reducing Fernandina Beach back pain.
HOW TO STOP INFLAMMATION
Well, first, know what inflammation does. Researchers made use of lipopolysaccharide (LPS) to create intervertebral disc degeneration in trials. They set out to see what may help decrease the produced back pain that accompanies it and/or even avoid the degeneration initially so we humans do not have to be subjected to low back pain at all! That’s a tough call though, Amelia Chiropractic Clinic knows. But consider this: researchers used LPS to create the degeneration that preceded low back pain. They found that procyanidin B3 (PRO-B3) seen in our diets inhibited the production of inflammatory markers - tumor necrosis factor α (TNF-Α), interleukin-6 (IL-6), prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) and nitric oxide – linked to disc degeneration. It also prevented the loss of the disc’s gelatin nucleus pulposus cells and structural damage of its anulus fibrosus (outer rings of disc). What’s all this indicate to researchers seeking a way to prevent degenerative disc degeneration (DDD)? PRO-B3 may be considered as a treatment agent for intervertebral disc degeneration (IVDD). This is a welcome bit of information for those 80% of us adults who are on track to have IVDD, a major cause of low back pain. (3) Another current paper described that the p38 MAPK inflammatory pathway may be able to postpone DDD utilizing the tyrosine kinase inhibitor, Genistein. (4) That is encouraging for the treatment of Fernandina Beach back pain and inflammation.
Vitamin D FOR INFLAMMATION
Research states that vitamin D deficiency is associated with low back pain that is stronger in younger women and in those with more severe deficiency. (5) Vitamin D deficiency is linked to lumbar disc disease and more severe low back pain in postmenopausal women. (6) Let’s talk about your vitamin D intake at your next Fernandina Beach 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.
