Ashburn and Herndon Back Pain Linked with Sarcopenia and Back Muscle Degeneration
Sarcopenia visits many of us one day if we live long enough! Muscle degeneration accompanies aging. Many of us won’t avoid it. Sarcopenia is the degeneration and loss of skeletal muscle mass, quality and strength which goes with aging. But back pain severity is more related to degenerated back muscles than sarcopenia. The more back muscle degeneration, the more back pain is experienced. (1) Poulin Chiropractic of Herndon and Ashburn takes care of older Ashburn and Herndon back pain patients to cope with their back pain and control its effect on their lives as they age gracefully.
MUSCLE DEGENERATION AND LIFE EXPERIENCE
Aging and life affect muscle strength. A new report states that after having had a back surgery, post-surgical back pain patients’ MRIs showed muscle degeneration in all of them. Type 2 fatty degeneration was most frequently seen over other types of changes like inflammation and scarring. (2) Muscle degeneration contributes to patients’ experiences of back pain.
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BACK PAIN AND MUSCLE DEGENERATION IN OLDER FOLKS
Chronic changes in back muscles occur throughout the spine in the long run. Acute changes immediately after injury are seen within the few days following surgery. Researchers wanted to know if these changes came before or after the injury. They found that the multifidus muscle decreased quickly after lumbar injury at the level of injury. (3) In the latest study of patients over 65 years old, 40% of chronic low back pain patients experienced sarcopenia. 26.6% of the control group (those who didn’t have chronic low back pain) had sarcopenia. The skeletal muscle mass was smaller and body fat ratio was much higher in the chronic low back pain group. Lumbar multifidis and erector spine muscles were much reduced in the chronic low back pain group, too. (4) Ashburn and Herndon chiropractic patients with sarcopenia have back pain and other problems that chiropractic addresses.
SARCOPENIA PAIN AND OTHER ISSUES’ EFFECTS
Poulin Chiropractic of Herndon and Ashburn has males and females with sarcopenia and other spinal problems in its Ashburn and Herndon chiropractic practice. Sarcopenia in patients with lumbar spinal stenosis was much more prevalent in females than males over 70 years of age. In one study, 13.9% of patients had sarcopenia which was accompanied by dyslipidemia and cardiovascular disease. They also had decreased body weight, body mass, grip strength, and walking distance. These patients experienced pain more deeply. (5) Your Ashburn and Herndon chiropractor understands this and gently handles their experience of pain and its source with gentle chiropractic treatment and exercise.
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Schedule a Ashburn and Herndon chiropractic visit with Poulin Chiropractic of Herndon and Ashburn for back pain issues associated with sarcopenia and back muscle degeneration. Aging, back pain and degeneration will not have to keep you from enjoying your life!
