“You’re young! You don’t have to worry about
back pain.” Not true! New research shows that young and old alike
must deal with disc degeneration. Most of us will personally have
to face disc degeneration’s pain at some point in our lives…or help a loved one dealing with its back pain or neck pain
complications. Chiropractic Care is here for young and
old alike when West Palm Beach disc degeneration interferes with your life.
DDD STARTS EARLIER THAN ONCE THOUGHT
It’s hard to believe, but it’s reported
in the medical literature. Disc degeneration starts in the late
teens! A study of 18-20 year old healthy
air force cadets discovered that 77% had13
disc degeneration or disc herniation. (1) That’s new news! It has been written
in other studies that disc degeneration starts at
age 20. Now it’s shown to appear
in 18 year olds! In this study MRIs were done on
all cadets. They all reported no spine pain. The
MRIs revealed that: 30% showed at least one disc was
dehydrating, 13% disc narrowing, 49% disc bulging, 18% disc protruding, 8% disc
extruding, 13% with spondylolisthesis, and less than 1% even had
asymptomatic vertebral fractures. These results in young,
seemingly healthy people are similar to what would be predictable
in adults. (1) It’s never too early to start paying attention to the spine! Chiropractic Care pays
attention to everyone’s spinal issues via spinal manipulation, nutrition
and exercise.
WHY?
Researchers (and parents) wonder “why?” Why does
lumbar spine disc degeneration or cervical spine disc degeneration start so young? It may be genetic. 80% of patients in a recent study had mutations
in their collagen-encoding genes. Collagen is important to disc and
joint health. Lumbar disc
herniation patients showed two variants in their gene encoding
for aggrecan, a protein that the end plate depends on for load-bearing. Such a mutation
influences the nucleus pulposus, annulus fibrosus and end plates.
(2) Of course, the whole reason about why a disc
degenerates is not fully known yet. Chiropractic Care
does have methods to contain and relieve the pain of
a West Palm Beach degenerated disc.
INTERRUPTING DISC DEGENERATION, PROMOTING DISC REGENERATION
Researchers described disc degeneration as a
complex connection of mechanical, biochemical, and structural alterations
at the cellular level, cells that are in an abnormal mechanical environment.
Regeneration of such cells would demand very specific conditions and
wouldn’t always be possible. However, traction of 2 to 6 weeks was
found to be a responsive time for regeneration of a degenerated
disc. The researchers suggest that this could interrupt the above
described cascade of changes. (3) Chiropractic Care uses Cox® Technic
to gently produce a positive environment for the healing of degenerated
discs by enhancing the area of the spinal canal by 28%,
increasing the height of the disc by 17%, and dropping
intradiscal pressures to as low as -192mmHg in the low back and dropping
pressures in the cervical spine by a mean pressure as much as 1265 mmHg. (4,5)
Chiropractic Care bolsters the Cox® Technic
system of spinal pain management by adding spinal nutrition (especially
disc nutrition supplementation) and exercise to optimize the relief
and clinical outcome for West Palm Beach back pain patients.
CONTACT Chiropractic Care
Listen to this PODCAST
with Dr. Paxton Schofield on The Back Doctors’ Podcast with Dr.
Michael Johnson who presented his care of arthritis and
degeneration with Cox® Technic.
Schedule your West Palm Beach chiropractic appointment at
Chiropractic Care for your spine’s health. You may not be too young for back pain, and you are certainly
not too young to look after your spine. A West Palm Beach
chiropractic treatment plan of spinal manipulation, nutrition and exercise can benefit all ages of back pain and neck pain sufferers struggling with
disc degeneration.