How To Prevent Chronic Low Back Pain?
We specialize in chiropractic interventions for injuries and accidents
Hello. Doctor Verg is here, and welcome to Five Minutes of Health. This show is made to motivate you to do what you know you must. Sometimes all we need is little bursts of information and practical application to keep the health fight on. Here we raise different health topics and today will talk about adjustments and how they work as a part of your health journey and approach to be healthy. This is one tool in our quest for a healthy body and a healthy nervous system.
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We have a central nervous system, and our nervous system affects everything we do but it is also affected by everything we do. We don’t just have signals going from our brain to the extremities, but we also have signals feeding from our hands, and feet, and joints, and muscles into our brain. And by stimulating, stretching, placing pressures on the body we can stimulate the parasympathetic nervous system. This is just one example of the affect we can have on our brain and nervous system through chiropractic treatment.
Is spinal manipulation effective?
Manipulation, or spinal manipulation has been shown to affect the activation threshold of
the lateral thalamic neurons of the central nervous system (1). These neurons are
responsible for the pain threshold we experience. So, after an adjustment these neurons
were less likely to cause pain signal to come on. If you ever had relatives that complain of
severe pain even with light pressure, they may have the problem of these neurons being
“too sensitive”, and manipulation “teaches them” to chill out. This is what I mean that
chiropractic can “retrain the brain”. With chronic pain these neurons “learn” the wrong
lesson and become “too sensitive” and that is how manipulation helps fix chronic pain.
So, a chronic pain patient has this thresholds turned way down which results in pain just
after sitting for longer period of time.
Is adjustment helping long term?
Adjustments has been shown to improve this pain threshold. The objection you might have
been, “I had adjustments that helped but then the pain came back!” How would we keep
that result? The answer is movement. We need three types of movement to maintain our
health: general body movement, regional body movement, and segmental movement.
Aerobics, and many sports are example of general body movement. We have resistance
training, and physical therapy rehabilitation that usually consists of regional body
movement. Segmental movement has to do with all the individual bones and joints ability to
move completely and without restrictions. Our feet have 32 joints for example. We have
many bones that interact with each other, and restriction in some of them will cause pain
and dysfunctional in other parts. This is where chiropractic manipulation come in to fix
those segmental joint movement. Not all chiropractor that check and adjust all the joints of
our body. So, if you have not seen a chiropractor that adjusts feet, wrist and fingers and you
may be surprised of what your body is capable of.
After your care, your job remains to continue moving. Movement is how health is
maintained. When a chiropractic corrects these dysfunctional segments of the spine or
body, we normalized information coming from the spine, which allows the brain to know
exactly what is happening in and around the body. This allows the brain to respond more
adequately and accurately to our body. One example of that is balance. One way to improve
balance is adjusting the ankles.
How that work?
When the chiropractic adjustments are administered, there is a quick stretch the joint
capsule that in turn stimulates all the nerve endings in that area. This causes our brain to
pay closer attention and better control of the muscle’s, ligaments, and joints of the affected
body part. This is good for the spine, joints, body and for the brain.
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(*1) Reed, W. R., Pickar, J. G., Sozio, R. S., & Long, C.
R. (2014). Effect of Spinal Manipulation Thrust Magnitude
on Trunk Mechanical Activation Thresholds of Lateral
Thalamic Neurons. Journal of Manipulative and
Physiological Therapeutics, 37(5), 277–286.
doi:10.1016/j.jmpt.2014.04.001
