Auburn Exercise and Manipulation May Help Get Water into Disc
Water is essential to the body. The body is composed of around 50% water. The spinal disc has around 80% water. Disc degeneration entails the loss of water and disc hydration. Chiropractic manages disc problems like disc degeneration with a variety of forms of care. Exercise assists water diffusion into the disc. Spinal manipulation enhances diffusion of water into the disc. Drinking water can’t but help! Dr. Le's Chiropractic & Wellness, L.L.C. uses spinal manipulation to help our spine pain patients experiencing Auburn back pain and neck pain and related leg and arm pain and suggests exercise to boost the effects of spinal manipulation to improve the health 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 described how muscles, tendons and bone do respond well, so they looked at 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 the patient with non specific low back pain, the researchers didn’t uncover a benefit though at 3 months the imaging exhibited increased L5S1 diffusion coefficients. They explained 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 look at other articles about diffusion of water into the disc. Wong explained that non-specific low back pain patients who responded with greater than 30% relief to spinal manipulation therapy compared with non-responders demonstrated a higher apparent diffusion coefficient for diffusion of water into the disc. (2) If exercise can boost that even a bit, it has a spot in back and neck pain management. If nothing else, a Auburn back pain sufferer may well improve the chances of responding to conservative care by maximizing the water content of disc with exercise and spinal manipulation!
Auburn SPINAL MANIPULATION AND WATER DIFFUSION INTO THE DISC
Studies of manual therapy and traction effects on the intervertebral disc in back pain patients demonstrated that there is an impact on the physiology (the structure and function) of the disc primarily via water diffusion and molecular transport. Both of these are vital for a healthy disc. (3) Beattie reported that changes in the diffusion of water within the the L1-2, L2-3, and L5S1 discs were seen after only one treatment of spinal manipulation. (4) Dr. Le's Chiropractic & Wellness, L.L.C. utlilizes the gentle distraction treatment called Cox Technic spinal manipulation to make a push-pull-pumping effect on the disc and its endplates to encourage imbibition of fluid into the disc help our Auburn 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 discusses the process of disc degeneration and how Cox® Technic Flexion Distraction helps in its care via manipulation.
Make your Auburn chiropractic appointment soon. Your body survives on water. Degenerated discs lose water. Dr. Le's Chiropractic & Wellness, L.L.C. guides Auburn chiropractic patients toward healthier discs with spinal manipulation and exercise to coost water content.
