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New Roads Chiropractic Treatment of Back Pain and Related Fatty Infiltration of Paraspinal Muscles

Undoubtedly, our New Roads chronic back pain sufferers have heard about associated paraspinal (multifidus, psoas, quadratus lumborum, erector spinae) muscle fatty infiltrate. They’re all tied together: fatty muscle infiltration, disc degeneration, spinal stenosis, facet joint degeneration, back pain. New Roads Chiropractic Center addresses all of them, too, to lessen back pain, improve the spine, and enhance your quality of life.

WHAT IS PARASPINAL MUSCLE FATTY INFILTRATE?

Paraspinal muscle fatty infiltrate is an accumulation of fat within the tissue of the muscles located near the spine, the paraspinal muscles. This condition may be triggered by aging or genetics while it can also be activated by lifestyle issues such as poor nutrition or little to no exercise. This condition doesn’t always provoke symptoms, but if it does, they can involve low back pain and related stiffness in the lower back and legs or difficulty walking because of gait disturbances. Intervertebral disc degeneration is a well-recognized culprit of chronic back pain, disc inflammation, and even spinal stability. Strong, well-functioning paraspinal muscles assist spinal stability. With back pain comes fatty infiltration of the paraspinal muscles that interfere with stability. (1) New Roads Chiropractic Center tests for these issues carefully during the chiropractic exam with an understanding of this the possible connection.

THE BACK PAIN AND WEAK PARASPINAL MUSCLE CONNECTION

A newer study summarized that disc degeneration and paraspinal muscle weakness were strongly correlated, facet joint degeneration and paraspinal muscle weakness were weakly correlated, and facet joint degeneration and disc degeneration were strongly correlated. It noted that the extent of paraspinal muscle weakness intensified with level of lumbar disc degeneration and facet joint degeneration while fatty infiltration of the multifidus paraspinal muscle was susceptible to weight. (2) Further, the published literature on the degree to which low back pain and fatty infiltration of multifidus and other paraspinal muscles (erector spinae, psoas, quadratus lumborum) influenced each other was somewhat contradictory – which comes first (pain or fatty infiltrate), can fatty infiltrate be reversed, is one predictive of the other (back pain that there is fatty infiltrate or fatty infiltrate that points to imminent back pain)? (3) New Roads Chiropractic Center keeps on top of what the research reports and urges our back pain patients to improve the muscles that they can so that they can support the spine in healing and preventing more episodes of pain as best as possible.

CHIROPRACTIC CARE OF BACK PAIN AND MUSCLE WEAKNESS

New Roads Chiropractic Center knows that low back pain patients don’t just have pain; they also get to endure muscle quality loss due to more fatty infiltration of the paraspinal muscles. Just how much loss is highly correlated with the severity of the back pain and related dysfunction. (4) That’s the reason that rehabilitation is so important alongside treatment of back pain for pain relief and prevention. Using The Cox Technic System of Spinal Pain Management in addition to other chiropractic services, nutrition and exercise, New Roads Chiropractic Center is here to help! While researchers are still studying whether fatty infiltration is changeable, New Roads Chiropractic Center sees the attempt to tone and strengthen a worthy effort.

Listen to this PODCAST with Dr.  Kurt Olding on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he describes the multitude of options open to back pain sufferers when it comes to healthcare providers and highlights the benefit of seeking a chiropractor trained in the protocols of The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.

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