Back Pain Changes Oxford Spinal Movement

Any Oxford back pain sufferer will agree: back pain affects movement. Sitting down takes more time. Standing up is slower. Bending over takes lots of thought…or triggers total avoidance. Satterwhite Chiropractic knows back pain alters motions. Researchers keep studying just how and how much it changes movement. With chiropractic care, your Oxford chiropractor is focused on helping you get back the simplicity of movement you had before you experienced back pain.

SPINAL MOVEMENT ALTERED BY BACK PAIN

Patients with low back pain move atypically. They often change the way they move to prevent pain. They will walk differently. They turn around differently. Their spinal kinematics – motions – are different. A new study reviewed over 800 papers on this topic of altered kinematics. The authors asserted that the limitation of lumbar spinal mobility in all planes caused by low back pain was statistically significant. (1) Another study concluded that the type of spinal disorder a patient affected the biomechanics of the sit-to-stand activity. Patients with spinal deformity-related back pain demonstrated greater differences in an array of biomechanical motions (like hip, spine, and knee torque) compared to patients with non-specific low back pain. (2) Determining just how much spinal kinematics are affected by back pain is your Oxford chiropractor’s much-loved job.

TESTING SPINAL MOVEMENT

When healthcare professional like your Oxford chiropractor examine new low back pain patients, tests like sit-to-stand that check our new patients’ ability to carry out motions that daily activities demand are valuable. Patients with low back pain exhibit greatly altered kinematics, motions, of the spine. (3) Patients with low back pain demonstrated motion changes in the lumbar spine, hip and trunk. (4) Chronic non-specific low back pain sufferers showed altered motor adaptability while doing various repetitive functional tasks like flexion, extension, lifting, walking, sit-to-stand-to-sit motions. (5) The chiropractic spinal examination at Satterwhite Chiropractic is comprehensive to document just how much low back pain is impeding your daily activities with a goal to get you back to doing them again with the least possible difficulty.

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Listen to the PODCAST with Dr. Matt Alexander on the Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he shares the effectiveness and gentleness of the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management for two patients with spinal stenosis, a condition shared by a lot of people that tends to affect motion.

Make your next Oxford chiropractic appointment with Satterwhite Chiropractic. When back pain has changed the way you move, walk, even think about moving, etc., make a visit to Satterwhite Chiropractic for not only back pain relief but also a return to more natural kinematic motion.