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Toronto Back Pain Linked with Sarcopenia and Back Muscle Degeneration

Sarcopenia finds many of us some day if we live long enough! Muscle degeneration accompanies aging. Many of us won’t avoid it. Sarcopenia is the degeneration and loss of skeletal muscle mass, quality and strength which goes with aging. But back pain severity is more associated with back muscle degeneration than sarcopenia. The more back muscle degeneration, the more back pain is experienced. (1) Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre treats older Toronto back pain patients to cope with their back pain and control its effect on their lives as they age gracefully.

MUSCLE DEGENERATION AND LIFE EXPERIENCE

Aging and life affect muscle strength. A new report states that after experiencing back surgery, post-surgical back pain patients’ MRIs revealed muscle degeneration in all of them. Type 2 fatty degeneration was most frequently seen over other types of changes like inflammation and scarring. (2) Muscle degeneration contributes to patients’ experiences of back pain.

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BACK PAIN AND MUSCLE DEGENERATION IN OLDER FOLKS

Chronic changes in back muscles are seen throughout the spine in the long run. Acute changes immediately after injury are seen within a few days. Researchers wanted to know if these changes came before or after the injury. They discovered that the multifidus muscle decreased quickly after lumbar injury at the level of injury. (3) In the latest study of patients over 65 years old, 40% of chronic low back pain patients had sarcopenia. 26.6% of the control group (those who didn’t have chronic low back pain) had sarcopenia. The skeletal muscle mass was smaller and body fat ratio was much higher in the chronic low back pain group. Lumbar multifidis and erector spine muscles were much reduced in the chronic low back pain group, too. (4) Toronto chiropractic patients with sarcopenia deal with back pain and other issues that chiropractic treats.

SARCOPENIA PAIN AND OTHER ISSUES’ EFFECTS

Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre sees males and females with sarcopenia and other conditions in its Toronto chiropractic practice. Sarcopenia in patients with lumbar spinal stenosis was much more common in females than males over 70 years old. In another study, 13.9% of patients had sarcopenia which was accompanied by dyslipidemia and cardiovascular disease. They also had lower body weight, body mass, grip strength, and walking distance. These patients experienced pain more acutely. (5) Your Toronto chiropractor knows this and gently manages their experience of pain and its source with gentle chiropractic treatment and exercise.

CONTACT Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre

Schedule a Toronto chiropractic visit with Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre for back pain issues associated with sarcopenia and back muscle degeneration. Aging, back pain and degeneration won’t have to prevent you from enjoying your life!

Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre lessens a lot of back pain and sees a lot of related sarcopenia and back muscle degeneration. 
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