Fernandina Beach Stability is Important for Back Painand for Coping Today

Just a quick comment on the current COVID-19. The CDC guidelines regarding how to cope are good. Look after yourself, EXERCISE, eat healthy, breathe, connect, and hope. Amelia Chiropractic Clinic advocates the same…and adds see your Fernandina Beach 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 Fernandina Beach chiropractic patients during times like these may triggering, but exercise to stabilize your spine during and after Fernandina Beach back pain episodes.

STABILITY AND BALANCE AND BACK PAIN

Stability and balance go together. Stability refers to how balance is controlled. Inhibited balance control is connected with reduced stability. Balance or rather a disruption of balance or the sense of stability is often noticed in or described by musculoskeletal pain patients like those with back pain and neck pain. For this reason, Amelia Chiropractic Clinic 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 helpful tool in the management of back pain and related leg pain, Fernandina Beach neck pain and any related arm pain. Researchers studied this topic of balance and its disruption, too. New studies reported on patients’ gait speed, their “timed up and go test” ability, step test and “sit-to-stand test.” Amelia Chiropractic Clinic is fond of these tests. Some of our Fernandina Beach chiropractic patients will be curious about what we are looking for when we have them sit in a chair and stand up from that position and time them! We chiropractors are an inquisitive group! Trials like these tell your Fernandina Beach chiropractor a lot about your spinal condition. A recent analysis of similar studies found that manual therapy like spinal manipulation used at Amelia Chiropractic Clinic improved short-term stability measures. (1) Rest assured additional studies like these are underway, and one explicitly examining how Cox® Technic Flexion Distraction alters these tests and eventually the balance and stability of back pain patients is in an initial clinical trial.

BALANCE AND FALLS

Many trials have already documented that many chronic musculoskeletal pain patients experience falls and have balance issues. That is a big problem for older patients with such musculoskeletal pain as they manytimes also have stiffer, less coordinated gait, and poorer balance and muscle strength. (1) Amelia Chiropractic Clinic 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 know this! Researchers measured their multifidus muscles throughout soccer season. At rest while lying down, these players’ multifidus muscle thickness diminished. Those players with low back pain showed 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 noted that body composition and body fat and mass were associated with the lumbar multifidus muscle size. Amelia Chiropractic Clinic has some exercise recommendations for our Fernandina Beach back pain patients to strengthen their multifidus muscles and improve their sense of balance and stability. Amelia Chiropractic Clinic is ready to share them with you at your Fernandina Beach chiropractic visit!

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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 showcased.

Schedule your next Fernandina Beach chiropractic appointment at Amelia Chiropractic Clinic today. Let Amelia Chiropractic Clinic play a role in your plan to sustain and improve your stability and balance during your back pain or neck pain episode…as well as throughout this odd time of coronavirus.