Cox Chiropractic Medicine Inc Sees Disc Disease in Young People
“You’re young! You don’t have to worry about back pain.” Not true! New research shows that young and old alike must contend with disc degeneration. Most of us will personally have to deal with disc degeneration’s pain at some point in our lives…or take care of a loved one dealing with its back pain or neck pain effects. Cox Chiropractic Medicine Inc is here for young and old alike when Fort Wayne disc degeneration interferes with your life.
DDD STARTS EARLIER THAN ONCE THOUGHT
It’s hard to believe, but it’s reported in the medical literature. Disc degeneration begins in the late teens! A study of 18-20 year old healthy air force cadets revealed that 77% had13 disc degeneration or disc herniation. (1) That’s new news! It has been documented elsewhere that disc degeneration starts at age 20. Now it’s shown to appear in 18 year olds! In this project MRIs were done on all cadets. They all reported no spine pain. The MRIs revealed that: 30% showed at least one disc’s dehydrating, 13% disc narrowing, 49% disc bulging, 18% disc protruding, 8% disc extruding, 13% with spondylolisthesis, and less than 1% even showed asymptomatic vertebral fractures. These findings in young, seemingly healthy people are similar to what would be expected in adults. (1) It is never too early to start paying attention to the spine! Cox Chiropractic Medicine Inc takes care of spines at all ages via spinal manipulation, nutrition and exercise.
WHY?
Researchers (and parents) wonder “why?” Why does lumbar spine disc degeneration or cervical spine disc degeneration start so young? It may be genetic. 80% of patients in a recent study had mutations in their collagen-encoding genes. Collagen is vital to disc and joint health. Back pain sufferers with a lumbar disc herniation had two variants in their gene encoding for aggrecan, a protein that the end plate depends on for load-bearing. Such a mutation influences the nucleus pulposus, annulus fibrosus and end plates. (2) Of course, the whole story of why a disc degenerates is not fully defined yet. Cox Chiropractic Medicine Inc does have ways to contain and relieve the pain of a Fort Wayne degenerated disc.
INTERRUPTING DISC DEGENERATION, PROMOTING DISC REGENERATION
Researchers explained disc degeneration as a cascade of mechanical, biochemical, and structural alterations at the cellular level, cells that are in an abnormal mechanical environment. Regeneration of such cells would demand very specific conditions and would not always be possible. However, traction of 2 to 6 weeks was found to be a responsive time for regeneration of a degenerated disc. The researchers suggest that this could interrupt the above described cascade of changes. (3) Cox Chiropractic Medicine Inc uses Cox® Technic to gently produce a positive environment for the healing of degenerated discs by increasing the area of the spinal canal by 28%, increasing the height of the disc by 17%, and dropping intradiscal pressures to as low as -192mmHg in the low back and dropping pressures in the cervical spine by a mean pressure as much as 1265 mmHg. (4,5) Cox Chiropractic Medicine Inc enhances the Cox® Technic system of spinal pain management by adding spinal nutrition (particularly disc nutrition supplementation) and exercise to boost the relief and clinical outcome for Fort Wayne back pain patients.
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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Paxton Schofield on The Back Doctors’ Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson who presented his care of arthritis and degeneration with Cox® Technic.
Schedule your Fort Wayne chiropractic appointment at Cox Chiropractic Medicine Inc for your spine’s health. You may not be too young for back pain, and you are undoubtedly not too young to look after your spine. A Fort Wayne chiropractic treatment plan of spinal manipulation, nutrition and exercise can benefit all ages of back pain and neck pain sufferers struggling with disc degeneration.
