Red. Swollen. Hot. Painful. Signs of inflammation that no
New Roads back pain patient wants to suffer. New Roads Chiropractic Center
delivers chiropractic services to decrease back pain
by identifying and dealing with any associated
inflammation.
INFLAMMATION AND BACK PAIN RELATED
How can you deduce if there’s
inflammation? Like other issues, researchers look
for a means to measure it. To measure inflammation, researchers look for inflammatory biomarkers, biological markers like tumor
necrosis factor alpha (TNF-α), C-reactive protein (CRP), and interleukin-6,
interleukin-1β, that exposed an increase. Researchers
have uncovered that chronic inflammation raised
cytokine production and activated pro-inflammatory
pathways that may bring about non-specific low back pain. (1)
Researchers detected systemic inflammation in chronic LBP and
may affect transition from acute to persistent low back pain. Particularly,
CRP was discovered to be elevated in acute low back pain patients versus control patients. TNF was higher in back pain
patients especially in patients with depression. (2) Since
researchers have already verified that inflammation
is tied to back pain, New Roads Chiropractic Center realizes that
inflammation must be reduced to help in reducing New Roads back pain.
HOW TO STOP INFLAMMATION
Well, first, know what inflammation does. Researchers
applied lipopolysaccharide (LPS) to simulate
intervertebral disc degeneration in trials. They want
to figure out what may potentially decrease
the produced back pain that accompanies it
and/or even avert the degeneration in the first place
so we humans don’t have to be subjected to
low back pain at all! That’s a tough call
though, New Roads Chiropractic Center understands. But follow
this: researchers used LPS to establish the
degeneration that led to low back pain. They discovered
that procyanidin B3 (PRO-B3) found in our diets blocked
the production of inflammatory markers - tumor necrosis factor α (TNF-Α),
interleukin-6 (IL-6), prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) and nitric oxide – associated
with disc degeneration. It also stopped the loss of the
disc’s gelatin nucleus pulposus cells and structural damage of
its anulus fibrosus (outer rings of disc). What’s all this mean
to researchers seeking a way to prevent degenerative
disc degeneration (DDD)? PRO-B3 may be looked at as a
treatment agent for intervertebral disc degeneration (IVDD). This is a welcome note for those 80% of us adults who are on track
to have IVDD, a major cause of low back pain. (3) Another recent
paper explained that the p38 MAPK inflammatory pathway may be able to delay DDD using the tyrosine
kinase inhibitor, Genistein. (4) That’s encouraging for the treatment of New Roads back pain and inflammation.
Vitamin D FOR INFLAMMATION
Research says that vitamin D deficiency is linked
with low back pain that is stronger in younger women and in those with more
severe deficiency. (5) Vitamin D deficiency is connected to lumbar
disc disease and more severe low back pain in postmenopausal women. (6) Let’s talk about your vitamin D status at your next
New Roads chiropractic appointment.
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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Sarah Murrow on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson. In this episode, Dr. Murrow and her patient present how the Cox® Technic System alleviated back pain due to disc bulges.