Healthy News February 2024

There is debate about whether the sacroiliac joint causes pain, but we aren’t go deep into that; however, our Fort Wayne back and leg pain sufferers may have pain in the sacroiliac joint. Some medical approaches today fuse the sacroiliac joints, inject them, etc. (1,2,3) In the conservative world, a review of how manual therapy may decrease and/or alleviate sacroiliac joint pain revealed that manual therapy – though just which manual therapy technique is superior was not well defined in all the studies they read – statistically significantly enhanced disability due to sacroiliac joint dysfunction syndrome. (4) There’s always room for additional research! Another study contrasted the effect 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 concluded that manual therapy was effective over the long term for sacroiliac joint pain reduction 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 concern in your back pain condition, let’s ponder Fort Wayne chiropractic non-surgical manual therapy and maybe a little exercise to deal with 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 includes exercise.

 

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

Exercise is praised for its benefit for heart health, benefit which appears after a few weeks or month of exercise. Researchers are sharing that even single or short-term exercise sessions produce benefit! They tested this and found that short-term exercise-induced protection provided immediate cardiac protection (like lessening the magnitude of cardiac/vascular damage due to long-term ischemia) at low cost and in a simple way. (6) We know that our exercise-adverse Fort Wayne chiropractic patients will like this! Just one exercise session may offer benefit. That’s the first step! And more bonuses 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) Are you ready to add exercise?

In this month of hearts (Happy belated Valentine’s Day), take care of your heart and spine! Aaron Chiropractic Clinic is honored to be your Fort Wayne chiropractic partner in this project. See you soon!

Make your Fort Wayne chiropractic appointment today!