Toronto Stability is Critical for Back Painand for Coping Today
Just a quick note on the current COVID-19. The CDC recommendations about coping are good. Look after yourself, EXERCISE, eat healthy, breathe, connect, and hope. Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre endorses the same…and also suggests that you see your Toronto chiropractor for extra stabilization and balance!
From https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/about/coping.html
Now, let’s consider exercise to not only stabilize YOU and your fellow Toronto chiropractic patients during times like these may triggering, but exercise to stabilize your spine during and after Toronto back pain episodes.
STABILITY AND BALANCE AND BACK PAIN
Stability and balance go hand-in-hand. Stability refers to how balance is controlled. Inhibited balance control is associated with less stability. Balance or rather a disruption of balance or the sense of stability is often observed in or described by musculoskeletal pain patients like those with back pain and neck pain. For this reason, Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre observes every chiropractic patient carefully during their whole visit from the time you walk through 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, Toronto 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.” Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre appreciates these tests. Some of our Toronto chiropractic patients will be curious about what we’re examining when we have them sit in a chair and stand up from that position and time them! We chiropractors are an inquisitive group! Tests like these reveal to your Toronto chiropractor much about your spinal condition. A recent analysis of similar studies reported that manual therapy like spinal manipulation used at Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre improved short-term stability measures. (1) Be certain more studies like these are underway, and one specifically looking at 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 already shown that many chronic musculoskeletal pain patients suffer 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) Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre urges our patients to exercise for balance and stability.
EXERCISE FOR STABILITY AND BALANCE
The lumbar spine multifidus muscle is a known and most vital stabilizer for the spine. Soccer players get this! Researchers measured their multifidus muscles throughout soccer season. At rest while lying down, these players’ multifidus muscle thickness decreased. 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 saw that body composition and body fat and mass were linked to the lumbar multifidus muscle size. Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre has some exercise recommendations for our Toronto back pain patients to strengthen their multifidus muscles and increase their sense of balance and stability. Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre is ready to show them to you at your Toronto 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 showcased.
Schedule your next Toronto chiropractic appointment at Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre today. Let Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre be part of your plan to sustain and increase your stability and balance during your back pain or neck pain episode…and in this odd time of coronavirus.
