Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers Treats Back Pain and Its Inflammatory Process
Red. Swollen. Hot. Painful. Signs of inflammation that no Baton Rouge back pain patient wants to suffer. Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers offers chiropractic services to decrease back pain by identifying and addressing any associated inflammation.
INFLAMMATION AND BACK PAIN RELATED
How can you differentiate if there is inflammation? Like other issues, researchers look for ways 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 revealed an increase. Researchers have discovered that chronic inflammation increased cytokine production and activated pro-inflammatory pathways that may lead to non-specific low back pain. (1) Researchers observed 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 verified that inflammation is tied to back pain, Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers realizes that inflammation must be decreased to help in reducing Baton Rouge back pain.
HOW TO STOP INFLAMMATION
Well, first, know what inflammation does. Researchers made use of lipopolysaccharide (LPS) to create intervertebral disc degeneration in experiments. They set out to figure out what may potentially reduce the produced back pain that accompanies it and/or even avoid the degeneration initially so we humans do not have to be subjected to low back pain at all! That’s a tall order though, Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers knows. But follow this: researchers used LPS to establish the degeneration that led to low back pain. They found that procyanidin B3 (PRO-B3) found in our diets prevented 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 prevented the loss of the disc’s gelatinous nucleus pulposus cells and structural damage of its anulus fibrosus (outer rings of disc). What does all this indicate to researchers seeking a way to prevent degenerative disc degeneration (DDD)? PRO-B3 may be considered as a treatment agent for intervertebral disc degeneration (IVDD). This is a welcome bit of information for those 80% of us adults who are likely to get IVDD, a major cause of low back pain. (3) Another current paper explained that the p38 MAPK inflammatory pathway may be a way to defer DDD utilizing the tyrosine kinase inhibitor, Genistein. (4) That is hopeful in the treatment of Baton Rouge 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 connected to lumbar disc disease and more severe low back pain in postmenopausal women. (6) Let us talk about your vitamin D intake at your next Baton Rouge 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.
