Montreal Stability is Critical for Back Painand for Coping Today

Just a quick comment on the current COVID-19. The CDC recommendations about best strategies to cope are good. Take care of yourself, EXERCISE, eat healthy, breathe, connect, and hope. Dr. Hoang's Chiropractic Clinic recommends the same…and also suggests that you see your Montreal chiropractor for extra stabilization and balance!

 

From https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/about/coping.html

Now, let us look at exercise to not only stabilize YOU and your fellow Montreal chiropractic patients during times like these may triggering, but exercise to stabilize your spine during and after Montreal back pain episodes.

STABILITY AND BALANCE AND BACK PAIN

Stability and balance go hand-in-hand. Stability alludes to how balance is controlled. Inhibited balance control is connected with less stability. Balance or rather a loss of balance or the sense of stability is often observed in or reported by musculoskeletal pain patients like those with back pain and neck pain. For this reason, Dr. Hoang's Chiropractic Clinic watches every chiropractic patient carefully throughout their whole visit from the time you walk through the front door, down the hall to your treatment room, and out the door again. Observation is a valuable tool in the management of back pain and related leg pain, Montreal neck pain and any related arm pain. Researchers examined this topic of balance and its disruption, too. Recent studies reported on patients’ gait speed, their “timed up and go test” ability, step test and “sit-to-stand test.” Dr. Hoang's Chiropractic Clinic is fond of these tests. Some of our Montreal chiropractic patients will be curious about what we are looking for when we have them sit in a chair and stand up from that position and note how long it takes them to do it! We chiropractors are a funny lot! Trials like these tell your Montreal chiropractor much about your spinal condition. A recent analysis of similar studies found that manual therapy like spinal manipulation offered at Dr. Hoang's Chiropractic Clinic improved short-term stability measures. (1) Be confident more studies like these are ongoing, and one specifically studying how Cox® Technic Flexion Distraction affects these tests and ultimately the balance and stability of back pain patients is underway.

BALANCE AND FALLS

Many trials have previously shown that many chronic musculoskeletal pain patients experience falls and have balance issues. That is a big problem for older patients with such musculoskeletal pain as they manytimes also have stiffer, less coordinated gait, and worse balance and muscle strength. (1) Dr. Hoang's Chiropractic Clinic recommends exercise for balance and stability.

EXERCISE FOR STABILITY AND BALANCE

The lumbar spine multifidus muscle is a known and most vital stabilizer for the spine. Soccer players know this! Researchers measured their multifidus muscles throughout soccer season. At rest while lying down, these players’ multifidus muscle thickness diminished. Those players with low back pain showed significant change at rest. (2) Australian football players with low back pain were to have the same issue while standing as well as lying down. (3) Both studies said that body composition and body fat and mass were linked to the lumbar multifidus muscle size. Dr. Hoang's Chiropractic Clinic has some exercise recommendations for our Montreal back pain patients to strengthen their multifidus muscles and improve their sense of balance and stability. Dr. Hoang's Chiropractic Clinic is ready to give them to you at your Montreal chiropractic visit!

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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Marc Baker on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson. The value of The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management for back pain and neck pain patients’ recovery is showcased.

Schedule your next Montreal chiropractic appointment at Dr. Hoang's Chiropractic Clinic today. Let Dr. Hoang's Chiropractic Clinic be part of your plan to sustain and enhance your stability and balance during your back pain or neck pain episode…and in this odd time of coronavirus.