Auburn Back Pain Linked with Sarcopenia and Back Muscle Degeneration
Sarcopenia visits many of us one day if we live long so long! Muscle degeneration accompanies aging. Many of us won’t avoid it. Sarcopenia is the degenerative loss of skeletal muscle mass, quality and strength which goes with aging. But back pain awfulness is more related to back muscle degeneration than sarcopenia. The more back muscle degeneration, the more back pain is sufferered. (1) Dr. Le's Chiropractic & Wellness, L.L.C. treats older Auburn back pain patients to handle 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 recent report states that after undergoing back surgery, post-surgical back pain patients’ MRIs showed muscle degeneration in all of them. Type 2 fatty degeneration was most often 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 found that the multifidus muscle reduced quickly after lumbar injury at the level of injury. (3) In the latest study of patients over 65 years of age, 40% of chronic low back pain patients experienced sarcopenia. 26.6% of the control group (those who didn’t have chronic low back pain) had sarcopenia. The skeletal muscle mass was much lower 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) Auburn chiropractic patients with sarcopenia experience back pain and other issues that chiropractic addresses.
SARCOPENIA PAIN AND OTHER ISSUES’ EFFECTS
Dr. Le's Chiropractic & Wellness, L.L.C. sees males and females with sarcopenia and other conditions in its Auburn chiropractic practice. Sarcopenia in patients with lumbar spinal stenosis was much more common in females than males over 70 years of age. In one study, 13.9% of patients had sarcopenia which was accompanied by dyslipidemia and cardiovascular disease. They also had decreased body weight, body mass, grip strength, and walking distance. These patients experienced pain more deeply. (5) Your Auburn chiropractor understands this and gently handles their experience of pain and its source with gentle chiropractic treatment and exercise.
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Schedule a Auburn chiropractic appointment with Dr. Le's Chiropractic & Wellness, L.L.C. for back pain issues associated with sarcopenia and back muscle degeneration. Aging, back pain and degeneration do not have to prevent you from enjoying your life!
