Red. Swollen. Hot. Painful. Signs of inflammation that no
Severna Park back pain patient desires. Back And Neck Care Center
delivers chiropractic services to decrease back pain
by identifying and dealing with any associated
inflammation.
INFLAMMATION AND BACK PAIN RELATED
How can you deduce if there is
inflammation? Like other issues, researchers search
for ways to measure it. To measure inflammation, researchers try
to find inflammatory biomarkers, biological markers like tumor
necrosis factor alpha (TNF-α), C-reactive protein (CRP), and interleukin-6,
interleukin-1β, that showed an increase. Researchers
have discovered that chronic inflammation raised
cytokine production and activated pro-inflammatory
pathways that may lead to non-specific low back pain. (1)
Researchers detected systemic inflammation in chronic LBP and
may influence transition from acute to persistent low back pain. Specifically,
CRP was discovered to be elevated in acute low back pain patients and
not in control patients. TNF was higher in back pain
patients especially in patients with depression. (2) Since
researchers have already recorded that inflammation
is tied to back pain, Back And Neck Care Center realizes that
inflammation must be decreased in order to
help reduce Severna Park back pain.
HOW TO STOP INFLAMMATION
Well, first, understand what inflammation does. Researchers
made use of lipopolysaccharide (LPS) to create
intervertebral disc degeneration in trials. They set out
to figure out what may help reduce
the produced back pain that accompanies it
and/or even prevent the degeneration in the first place
so we humans do not have to experience
low back pain at all! That is a tough call
though, Back And Neck Care Center understands. But follow
this: researchers utilized LPS to create the
degeneration that led to low back pain. They found
that procyanidin B3 (PRO-B3) found in our diets inhibited
the production of inflammatory markers - tumor necrosis factor α (TNF-Α),
interleukin-6 (IL-6), prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) and nitric oxide – associated
with disc degeneration. It also stopped the loss of the
disc’s gelatinous nucleus pulposus cells and structural damage of
its anulus fibrosus (outer rings of disc). What’s all this mean
to researchers looking for a way to prevent degenerative
disc degeneration (DDD)? PRO-B3 may be looked at as a
treatment agent for intervertebral disc degeneration (IVDD). This is a welcome bit
of information for those 80% of us adults who are on track
to have IVDD, a major cause of low back pain. (3) Another current
paper explained that the p38 MAPK inflammatory pathway may be a
way to postpone DDD using the tyrosine
kinase inhibitor, Genistein. (4) That is hopeful
in the treatment of Severna Park back pain and inflammation.
Vitamin D FOR INFLAMMATION
Research states that vitamin D deficiency is linked
with low back pain that is stronger in younger women and in those with more
severe deficiency. (5) Vitamin D deficiency is connected to lumbar
disc disease and more severe low back pain in postmenopausal women. (6) Let
us talk about your vitamin D status at your next
Severna Park chiropractic appointment.
CONTACT Back And Neck Care Center
Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Sarah Murrow on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson. In this episode, Dr. Murrow and her patient present how the Cox® Technic System alleviated back pain due to disc bulges.