Ashburn and Herndon Pain and Inflammation Helped by Spinal Manipulation
Pain and inflammation are known partners. Spinal manipulation has been utilized to decrease 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 possibly control inflammation and its impact on spine pain. Poulin Chiropractic of Herndon and Ashburn views improvement in our spine pain patients on many fronts: pain reduction, function improvement, etc. The functions of inflammation in back pain and of spinal manipulation in reducing that pain is core to the Ashburn and Herndon chiropractic treatment plan.
BIOMARKERS
Biomarkers are measurable indicators of body function via tests like blood pressure, urine testing, blood testing, imaging, etc. Biomarkers can indicate normal and abnormal processes taking place 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 related the story. A recent biomarker test is brain imaging. Why brain? Researchers realize that chronic back pain surely changes the spine and believe that it changes the brain structure. Brain imaging is a non-invasive biomarker able to produce brain resting-state functional connectivity to study such alterations. (1) Researchers continue coming up with new tests! Poulin Chiropractic of Herndon and Ashburn is following these biomarker findings watchfully.
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 contrast in the inflammatory profiles of nonspecific acute and chronic low back pain sufferers. They found a distinct difference in that there was a difference between pro-inflammatory and anti-inflammatory mediator levels leaning toward an overproduction of proinflammatory components in both types of patients. (2) Another study revealed 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 elevated. (3) These types of tests may help your Ashburn and Herndon chiropractor monitor your back pain in a new way.
BIOMARKER TESTING OF BACK PAIN RESPONSE TO SPINAL MANIPULATION
The chiropractic treatment plan at Poulin Chiropractic of Herndon and Ashburn 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 found significant (though limited and diverse) alterations in the production of several biomarkers in acute and chronic back pain patients. Pain and disability scores dropped too. (4) These are beneficial findings for the use of spinal manipulation for back pain. Poulin Chiropractic of Herndon and Ashburn is excited to see more information about biomarker-level changes with Ashburn and Herndon 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.
Make your Ashburn and Herndon chiropractic appointment today. Every day, pain and inflammation come to our clinic together. Our treatment helps decrease their influence on the lives of our Ashburn and Herndon chiropractic patients.
