The Spinal Connections: Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre Offers Spinal Manipulation Which Shows Lower Limb Strength Improvement
It’s all connected. The spine, the hips, the knees, the legs, the feet, the toes. In recent studies, the connection between spinal manipulation and the relief of lower limb pain and weakness and imbalance are investigated. Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre has noticed such relief. The research contributes to the talk with such Toronto chiropractic patients that there’s hope for their condition.
LOWER LIMB STRENGTH IMPROVEMENT
Toronto chiropractic patients come to Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre with typically one pain issue and do not even notice other issues until we uncover them together during the spinal examination. We are manytimes detectives together! The chiropractic exam can uncover clues to the condition at hand, clues that frequently are painful or weak and, thankfully, also calm with chiropractic treatment. Lower limb weakness is manytimes disregarded by back and leg pain patients. Pain is the attention-getter. One study reported that a single spinal manipulation enhanced muscle strength (for 30 minutes) and corticospinal excitability (for an hour) to ankle plantar flexor muscles in Taekwondo athletes. (1) Another study of spinal manipulation’s effect on lower limb strength of healthy people showed immediate increase in muscle strength after just one session. The chiropractic spinal manipulation treatment helps ease the pain and increase the lower limb weakness. The effect is found to be immediate with only one spinal manipulation. For patients who experience hip and knee weakness yet otherwise healthy, the strength improvement is even bigger. (2) Patients at Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre have reported just such improvement!
LOWER LIMB IMBALANCE IMPROVEMENT
Other Toronto chiropractic patients with limb imbalances in whom one leg seems stronger than the other have found relief with their Toronto chiropractic spinal manipulation, too. They may know they have it or don’t realize it until we go through the exam jointly. Once found, limb strength imbalances of a minimum of 15% in hip flexion, extension, abduction or knee flexion treated with spinal manipulation improved compared to placebo treatment. These strength improvements were recorded after just one lumbar spine manipulation session. (3) Spinal mobilization improved hip flexor strength and performance in asymptomatic young adults. (4) These are positive outcomes for our Toronto chiropractic patients!
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Listen to this PODCAST by Dr. Kim Lombardy on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he explains how he helped a patient with hip pain after a hip replacement surgery to get rid of the hip pain. His care with the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management helped her.
Schedule your next Toronto chiropractic care appointment with Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre. Come see how spinal manipulation may help your spine, hip and knee pain and weakness, back pain, and more! Experience the healing connection yourself!
