Fort Wayne Pain and Inflammation Helped by Spinal Manipulation
Pain and inflammation are known companions. Spinal manipulation has been utilized to reduce spine pain, back pain, neck pain, arm pain, and leg pain. New studies show that the effect of spinal manipulation may go beyond the spine to potentially mediate inflammation and its impact on spine pain. Cox Chiropractic Medicine Inc views improvement in our spine pain patients in several ways: pain reduction, function improvement, etc. The roles of inflammation in back pain and of spinal manipulation in decreasing that pain is central to the Fort Wayne chiropractic treatment plan.
BIOMARKERS
Biomarkers are quantifiable indicators of body function via tests like blood pressure, urine testing, blood testing, imaging, etc. Biomarkers can indicate normal and abnormal processes occurring in the body. In the realm of back pain, researchers have been scrutinizing blood testable biomarkers like tumor necrosis factor (TNFα), interleukin-1 β (IL-1β), IL-6, IL-2, interferon (IFN), IL-1 receptor antagonist (IL-1RA), TNF soluble receptor type 2 (sTNFR2) and IL-10 to tell the story. A newer biomarker test is brain imaging. Why brain? Researchers realize that chronic back pain surely alters the spine and suggest that it alters the brain structure. Imaging of the brain is a non-invasive biomarker able to produce brain resting-state functional connectivity to study such alterations. (1) Researchers keep coming up with new tests! Cox Chiropractic Medicine Inc is following these biomarker findings carefully.
BIOMARKER TESTING FOR BACK PAIN
As low back pain continues to dominate healthcare as one of the greatest contributors to disability globally, researchers are researching biomarkers and their role in low back pain. Researchers wondered if there was a variance in the inflammatory profiles of nonspecific acute and chronic low back pain sufferers. They discovered a distinct difference in that there was a difference between pro-inflammatory and anti-inflammatory mediator levels noting an overproduction of proinflammatory components in both types of patients. (2) Another report found that C-reactive protein in patients with acute non-specific low back pain and TNF-α in chronic non-specific low back pain patients were higher. (3) These types of tests may help your Fort Wayne chiropractor monitor your back pain in a novel way.
BIOMARKER TESTING OF BACK PAIN RESPONSE TO SPINAL MANIPULATION
The chiropractic treatment plan at Cox Chiropractic Medicine Inc currently heavily relies on gentle spinal manipulation to relieve pain. A blood test study for biomarkers taken at the beginning of and 2 weeks after such spinal manipulative treatment documented significant (though limited and diverse) changes in the production of several biomarkers in acute and chronic back pain patients. Pain and disability scores dropped as well. (4) These are encouraging findings for the use of spinal manipulation for back pain. Cox Chiropractic Medicine Inc is excited to see more information about biomarker-level changes with Fort Wayne spinal manipulation!
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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. James Cox on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he describes how use of chiropractic spinal manipulation and Cox® Technic Flexion Distraction may well surpass pain relief.
Schedule your Fort Wayne chiropractic appointment soon. Daily, pain and inflammation come through our door together. Our treatment helps ease their influence on the lives of our Fort Wayne chiropractic patients.
