Orchard Park, NY Exercise and Manipulation May Help Get Water into Disc

Water is essential to the body. Water makes up about half of the body. The spinal disc is composed of about 80% water. Disc degeneration involves the loss of disc hydration and water. Chiropractic manages disc problems like disc degeneration with a variety of forms of care. Exercise helps with water diffusion into the disc. Spinal manipulation enhances diffusion of water into the disc. Drinking water can’t but help!  Novelli Wellness Center implements spinal manipulation to take care of our spine pain patients suffering with Orchard Park, NY back pain and neck pain and related leg and arm pain and recommends exercise to enhance the effects of spinal manipulation to improve the health of the spinal disc.

DIFFUSION OF WATER INTO THE DISC VIA EXERCISE

Can exercise help the intervertebral disc in non-specific low back pain sufferers? Researchers reported that muscles, tendons and bone do respond positively, so they looked at the disc to see if it does.  One new study made use of imaging to find out. On T2-weighted MRI imaging after six months of exercise in this type of patient, the non-specific low back pain patient, the researchers did not find a benefit though at 3 months the imaging exhibited higher L5S1 diffusion coefficients. They explained that other types of low back pain sufferers may respond differently. (1) That’s noteworthy. The increased 'apparent diffusion coefficients' is promising yet when we read other articles about diffusion of water into the disc. Wong pointed out that non-specific low back pain patients who responded with greater than 30% relief to spinal manipulation therapy compared with non-responders demonstrated a higher apparent diffusion coefficient for disc diffusion of water. (2) If exercise can boost that even a little, it has a place in back and neck pain management. If nothing else, a Orchard Park, NY back pain sufferer may well improve the chances of responding to conservative care by maximizing the water content of disc with exercise and spinal manipulation!

Orchard Park, NY SPINAL MANIPULATION AND WATER DIFFUSION INTO THE DISC

Studies of manual therapy and traction effects on the intervertebral disc in back pain patients demonstrated that there is an impact on the physiology (the structure and function) of the disc mainly via water diffusion and molecular transport. Both of these are important for a healthy disc. (3) Beattie wrote that changes in the water diffusion within the the L1-2, L2-3, and L5S1 discs were appreciated after just one treatment of spinal manipulation. (4) Novelli Wellness Center utlilizes the gentle distraction treatment called Cox Technic spinal manipulation to make a push-pull-pumping effect on the disc and its endplates to encourage imbibition of fluid into the disc help our Orchard Park, NY spine pain patients.

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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. James Cox on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he further discusses the process of disc degeneration and how Cox® Technic Flexion Distraction helps in its care via manipulation.

Set up your Orchard Park, NY chiropractic appointment soon. Your body survives on water. Disc degeneration is a loss of water. Novelli Wellness Center guides Orchard Park, NY chiropractic patients toward healthier discs with spinal manipulation and exercise to enhance water content.