Dr. Le's Chiropractic & Wellness, L.L.C. Treats Back Pain and Its Inflammatory Process
Red. Swollen. Hot. Painful. Signs of inflammation that no Auburn back pain patient desires. Dr. Le's Chiropractic & Wellness, L.L.C. offers chiropractic services to reduce back pain by identifying and addressing any associated inflammation.
INFLAMMATION AND BACK PAIN RELATED
How can you deduce if there is inflammation? Like other issues, researchers search for ways to measure it. To measure inflammation, researchers try to find inflammatory biomarkers, biological markers like tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-α), C-reactive protein (CRP), and interleukin-6, interleukin-1β, that exposed an increase. Researchers have uncovered that chronic inflammation raised cytokine production and activated pro-inflammatory pathways that may lead to non-specific low back pain. (1) Researchers observed systemic inflammation in chronic LBP and may affect transition from acute to persistent low back pain. Particularly, CRP was discovered to be elevated in acute low back pain patients and not in control patients. TNF was higher in back pain patients especially in patients with depression. (2) Since researchers have already verified that inflammation is tied to back pain, Dr. Le's Chiropractic & Wellness, L.L.C. realizes that inflammation must be reduced in order to help reduce Auburn back pain.
HOW TO STOP INFLAMMATION
Well, first, understand what inflammation does. Researchers applied lipopolysaccharide (LPS) to create intervertebral disc degeneration in experiments. They want to see what may potentially decrease the generated back pain that accompanies it and/or even avoid the degeneration initially so we humans don’t have to suffer low back pain at all! That is a tall order though, Dr. Le's Chiropractic & Wellness, L.L.C. understands. But follow this: researchers used LPS to create the degeneration that preceded low back pain. They discovered that procyanidin B3 (PRO-B3) seen in our diets blocked the production of inflammatory markers - tumor necrosis factor α (TNF-Α), interleukin-6 (IL-6), prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) and nitric oxide – linked to disc degeneration. It also prevented the loss of the disc’s gelatin nucleus pulposus cells and structural damage of its anulus fibrosus (outer rings of disc). What’s all this indicate to researchers seeking a way to prevent degenerative disc degeneration (DDD)? PRO-B3 may be considered as a treatment agent for intervertebral disc degeneration (IVDD). This is a welcome bit of information for those 80% of us adults who are on track to have IVDD, a major cause of low back pain. (3) Another current paper explained that the p38 MAPK inflammatory pathway may be able to delay DDD utilizing the tyrosine kinase inhibitor, Genistein. (4) That is hopeful in the treatment of Auburn back pain and inflammation.
Vitamin D FOR INFLAMMATION
Research says that vitamin D deficiency is associated with low back pain that is stronger in younger women and in those with more severe deficiency. (5) Vitamin D deficiency is connected to lumbar disc disease and more severe low back pain in postmenopausal women. (6) Let’s talk about your vitamin D status at your next Auburn chiropractic appointment.
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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Sarah Murrow on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson. In this episode, Dr. Murrow and her patient present how the Cox® Technic System alleviated back pain due to disc bulges.
