Cox Chiropractic Medicine Inc Treats Back Pain and Its Inflammatory Process
Red. Swollen. Hot. Painful. Signs of inflammation that no Fort Wayne back pain patient desires. Cox Chiropractic Medicine Inc delivers chiropractic services to decrease back pain by identifying and dealing with any related inflammation.
INFLAMMATION AND BACK PAIN RELATED
How can you tell if there’s inflammation? Like other issues, researchers search for ways to measure it. To measure inflammation, researchers try to find inflammatory biomarkers, biological markers like tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-α), C-reactive protein (CRP), and interleukin-6, interleukin-1β, that showed an increase. Researchers have discovered that chronic inflammation raised cytokine production and activated pro-inflammatory pathways that may lead to non-specific low back pain. (1) Researchers detected systemic inflammation in chronic LBP and may influence transition from acute to persistent low back pain. Particularly, CRP was found elevated in acute low back pain patients versus control patients. TNF was higher in back pain patients particularly in patients with depression. (2) Since researchers have already documented that inflammation is tied to back pain, Cox Chiropractic Medicine Inc realizes that inflammation must be reduced to help in reducing Fort Wayne back pain.
HOW TO STOP INFLAMMATION
Well, first, understand what inflammation does. Researchers used lipopolysaccharide (LPS) to create intervertebral disc degeneration in trials. They set out to see what may potentially decrease the generated back pain that accompanies it and/or even avoid the degeneration initially so we humans don’t have to experience low back pain at all! That is a tough call though, Cox Chiropractic Medicine Inc knows. But follow this: researchers used LPS to create the degeneration that preceded low back pain. They discovered that procyanidin B3 (PRO-B3) found in our diets inhibited the production of inflammatory markers - tumor necrosis factor α (TNF-Α), interleukin-6 (IL-6), prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) and nitric oxide – linked to 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 does all this signify to researchers looking for 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 described that the p38 MAPK inflammatory pathway may be able to defer DDD using the tyrosine kinase inhibitor, Genistein. (4) That’s encouraging for the treatment of Fort Wayne back pain and inflammation.
Vitamin D FOR INFLAMMATION
Research says that vitamin D deficiency is associated with low back pain that is stronger in younger women and in those with more severe deficiency. (5) Vitamin D deficiency is linked 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 Fort Wayne 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.
