Fort Wayne Back Muscles Affected By Back Pain
The spine is maintained by many muscles. Back pain and degenerative spine disorders affect those muscles. Chiropractors like yours at Cox Chiropractic Medicine Inc deal with both the degenerative spinal pain condition as well as the related degenerated spine muscles. Fort Wayne chiropractic back pain treatment plans integrate pain-relieving approaches for both the spine and its musculature.
BACK PAIN AND MUSCLES’ RESPONSES
Back pain affects back muscles. Different Fort Wayne back pain conditions impact different Fort Wayne back muscles, too. Paraspinal muscles show varied responses to spinal degenerative conditions. Alterations in the lumbar spine paraspinal muscles of low back pain patients have been described. Wasting of the multifidus muscles in patients with back pain, lumbar radiculopathy, and lumbar degenerative kyphosis are particularly documented. Increased fat infiltration of the multifidus muscle is also seen in patients with lumbar radiculopathy and lumbar degenerative kyphosis. (1) In a report on 78 patients with either degenerative lumbar spondylolisthesis or degenerative lumbar kyphosis, researchers described these degenerative muscle patterns. The multifidus muscle is explained as the stabilizer of the lumbar spine segments while the erector spinae muscles tend to be seen as the stabilizers of spinal sagittal balance. Multifidus muscle degeneration was more significant in the degenerative lumbar spondylolisthesis patients. Erector spinae degeneration was more significant in the degenerative lumbar kyphosis patients as well as more closely connected to the severity of spinal kyphosis curvature. (2) Continuous chronic low back pain sufferers as compared to non-continuous and recurrent low back pain sufferers were found to have greater EMG activity in erector spinae and multifidus muscles in extension. (3) Your Fort Wayne chiropractor at Cox Chiropractic Medicine Inc pays close attention to these differences.
BACK PAIN AND BACK MUSCLES: STABILITY
Cox Chiropractic Medicine Inc also notes back pain and muscle response on spinal stability. Researchers explained that chronic low back pain weakens spinal stability of its sufferers. In examining the activation patterns of the latissimus dorsi, gluteus maximus, and upward scapular rotation muscles of chronic LBP patients, researchers found a significant rise in upward scapular rotation in all shoulder abduction positions on both sides. The left side was more affected than the right. Further, they found increased latissimus dorsi muscle activities and reduced gluteus maximus activities in chronic low back pain. (4) Spinal manipulation is explained as stimulating transient physiological responses of which paraspinal muscle activity and muscle spindle responses are added. (5) Your Fort Wayne chiropractor will keep these in mind when treating your spine as well as in setting exercises to address weaknesses.
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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Paulette Hugulet on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson. She discusses her implementation of spinal manipulation, namely the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management, for a 77-year-old patient to decrease pain and better her muscle function and strength.
