Healthy News February 2024

There is debate about whether the sacroiliac joint causes pain, but we will not get deep into that; however, our Largo back and leg pain sufferers may experience pain in the sacroiliac joint. Some medical approaches today fuse the sacroiliac joints, inject them, etc. (1,2,3) In the conservative world, an analysis of how manual therapy may decrease and/or alleviate sacroiliac joint pain reported that manual therapy – though just which manual therapy technique is superior was not clear in all the studies they read – statistically significantly boosted disability due to sacroiliac joint dysfunction syndrome. (4) There is always room for additional research! Another study contrasted the impact of manual therapy, exercise, and a combination of those two on sacroiliac pain dysfunction. All three groups were shown to have had a significant reduction in sacroiliac-associated pain. The researchers stated in their conclusion that manual therapy was effective in the long term for sacroiliac joint pain decrease and that adding specific exercise to the sacroiliac joint manipulation treatment elevated the effectiveness. (5) If we discover through our examination that sacroiliac pain is of consequence in your back pain condition, let’s discuss Largo chiropractic non-surgical manual therapy and maybe a little exercise to address it!

Listen to this PODCAST with Dr.  Michael McMurray on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson about use of The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management that incorporates exercise.

 

Largo CHIROPRACTIC TIP OF THE MONTH: EXERCISE - GOOD FOR HEART…AND LOW BACK MUSCLE

Exercise is commended for its benefit for heart health, benefit which appears after some time of exercise say weeks or months. Researchers are sharing that even single or short-term exercise sessions offer benefit! They verified this and found that short-term exercise-induced protection provided immediate cardiac protection (like decreasing the magnitude of cardiac/vascular damage due to long-term ischemia) at low cost and in a simple way. (6) We have a feeling that our exercise-adverse Largo chiropractic patients will like this! Just one exercise session may offer benefit. That’s a first step! And more advantages of exercise for low back pain sufferers are reported. A rehab exercise program for normal and overweight patients showed improvement in total cholesterol and low-density lipoprotein as well as improvement in cardiovascular risk and lumbar muscle. (7) Time to add exercise?

In this month of hearts (Happy belated Valentine’s Day), take care of your heart and spine! Hollstrom & Associates Inc is pleased to be your Largo chiropractic partner in this endeavor. See you soon!

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