Toronto Exercise and Manipulation May Help Get Water into Disc

January 28, 2021

Water is central to the body. Water makes up about half of the body. The spinal disc is composed of about 80% water. Disc degeneration involves the loss of disc hydration and water. Chiropractic takes care of disc problems like disc degeneration with a variety of forms of care. Exercise helps with water diffusion into the disc. Spinal manipulation boosts diffusion of water into the disc. Drinking water cannot but help! Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre implements spinal manipulation to take care of our spine pain patients suffering with Toronto back pain and neck pain and related leg and arm pain and recommends exercise to support the effects of spinal manipulation to take care 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 reported that muscles, tendons and bone do respond positively, so they turned to the disc to see if it would. One new study employed imaging to learn. On T2-weighted MRI imaging after six months of exercise in this type of patient, the non-specific low back pain patient, the researchers didn’t uncover a benefit though at 3 months the imaging showed increased L5S1 diffusion coefficients. They did explain that other types of low back pain sufferers may respond differently. (1) That’s noteworthy. The increased 'apparent diffusion coefficients' is promising yet when we consider other articles about diffusion of water into the disc. Wong pointed out 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 disc diffusion of water. (2) If exercise can boost that even a bit, it has a spot in back and neck pain management. If nothing else, a Toronto back pain sufferer may well increase the chances of responding to conservative care by raising the water content of disc with exercise and spinal manipulation!

Toronto 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 wrote that changes in the water diffusion within the the L1-2, L2-3, and L5S1 discs were seen after just one treatment of spinal manipulation. (4) Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre utlilizes the gentle distraction treatment called Cox Technic spinal manipulation to create a push-pull-pumping effect on the disc and its endplates to encourage imbibition of fluid into the disc help our Toronto 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 Toronto chiropractic appointment today. Your body survives on water. Disc degeneration is a loss of water. Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre guides Toronto chiropractic patients toward healthier discs with spinal manipulation and exercise to enhance water content.

Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre uses spinal manipulation and exercise to boost the diffusion of water into the disc which supports the health of the disc.