Baton Rouge Back Muscles Affected By Back Pain
The spine is maintained by several muscles. Back pain and degenerative spine disorders affect those muscles. Chiropractors like yours at Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers deal with both the degenerative spinal pain condition and the related degenerated spine muscles. Baton Rouge chiropractic back pain treatment plans incorporate pain-relieving approaches for both the spine and its musculature.
BACK PAIN AND MUSCLES’ RESPONSES
Back pain alters back muscles. Different Baton Rouge back pain conditions impact different Baton Rouge back muscles, too. Paraspinal muscles show different responses to spinal degenerative conditions. Changes in the lumbar spine paraspinal muscles of low back pain patients have been described. Atrophy of the multifidus muscles in patients with back pain, lumbar radiculopathy, and lumbar degenerative kyphosis are specifically noted. Intensified fat infiltration of the multifidus muscle is also present in patients with lumbar radiculopathy and lumbar degenerative kyphosis. (1) In a study of 78 patients with either degenerative lumbar spondylolisthesis or degenerative lumbar kyphosis, researchers described these degenerative muscle patterns. The multifidus muscle is seen as the stabilizer of the lumbar spine segments while the erector spinae muscles tend to be seen as the stabilizers of spinal sagittal balance. Multifidus muscle degeneration was more significant in the degenerative lumbar spondylolisthesis patients. Erector spinae degeneration was more significant in the degenerative lumbar kyphosis patients as well as more closely connected to the severity of spinal kyphosis curvature. (2) Continuous chronic low back pain patients as compared to non-continuous and recurrent low back pain sufferers were found to have greater EMG activity in erector spinae and multifidus muscles in extension. (3) Your Baton Rouge chiropractor at Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers pays close attention to these differences.
BACK PAIN AND BACK MUSCLES: STABILITY
Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers also notes back pain and muscle response on spinal stability. Researchers explained that chronic low back pain impairs spinal stability of its sufferers. In looking at the activation patterns of the latissimus dorsi, gluteus maximus, and upward scapular rotation muscles of chronic LBP patients, researchers discovered a significant increase in upward scapular rotation in all shoulder abduction positions on both sides. The left side was more significant than the right. Further, they found increased latissimus dorsi muscle activities and decreased gluteus maximus activities in chronic low back pain. (4) Spinal manipulation is described as stimulating transient physiological responses of which paraspinal muscle activity and muscle spindle responses are added. (5) Your Baton Rouge chiropractor will keep these in mind when treating your spine as well as in designing exercises to address weaknesses.
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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Paulette Hugulet on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson. She discusses her implementation of spinal manipulation, namely the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management, for a 77-year-old patient to reduce pain and improve muscle function and strength.
