The importance of receiving regular spinal manipulation therapy
Depending on your daily mental and physical stressors, spinal manipulation and cold stress therapy on a regular-routine basis may significantly reduce the risk for developing poor posture, back and neck pain, and musculoskeletal injuries.
Individuals who receive regular spinal manipulation at intervals between 1 to 3 months can reduce the number of days with acute low back pain episodes and increase the length of pain-free periods. As a result, maintenance care patients experience fewer days with lower back pain than patients invited to contact their chiropractor “when needed”.
Recurrent (episodic) or persistent back and neck pain sufferers who react well to the initial spinal manipulation treatment, then those who improve by the 4th spinal manipulation session, respond well to maintenance care. Spinal pain is a recurrent disorder with exacerbations and remissions throughout a human’s life.
Furthermore, routine spinal manipulation of asymptomatic individuals once per month may slow down the progression of spinal degeneration and associated muscle weakness and encourage a normal range of spine motion. Immobility of the spine and joints is related to the onset of spinal degeneration, neural degeneration, neuroplastic changes, and muscular atrophy and weakness at an average of 2 to 4 weeks.
In addition, arthrogenic muscle inhibition is an ongoing neural inhibition that can prevent your healthy spine muscles from fully activating, even if you are pain-free. Repetitive postural straining-poor posture, overuse, and trauma to your spine are some causes and contributing factors.
That is to say, athletes and the active individual must understand that a dysfunctional spine segment or a “misalignment” can cause significant weakness of your healthy spine and limb muscles via shared nerve supply-segmental innervation, even if the dysfunctional spinal joint does not present with pain or other symptoms.
Further, maintenance care may achieve the best health with exercise therapy, diet, and nutritional counselling, especially with routine cold stress therapy.
Spinal Manipulation Therapy
- Increase range of motion of the spine and improve posture and spinal proprioception.
- Decrease muscle weakness and muscle spasms in the presence and absence of pain.
- Increase muscle strength.
- Enhance motor programming, control, and learning task performance and neural mechanisms at higher brain areas.
- Improve and enhance athletic performance.
Localized Cryostimulation Therapy
- Enhance recovery for muscle injury and damage, and increase muscle strength and oxygen delivery in working muscles.
- One session of cryostimulation treatment significantly enhanced muscle injury recovery time and decreased muscle soreness.
- Reduce exercise-induced muscle damage and soreness, and decrease delayed onset muscle soreness, especially in the highly active individual and more elite-level athletes.
- Superior in decreasing exercise-induced muscle damage recovery with increased strength and reduced pain versus infrared radiation and passive modalities.
- Reduces arthrogenic muscle inhibition, limit protein degradation, and allows more movement in inflamed and painful joints and spine: increases muscle flexibility, range of motion, and active muscle power, and decreases muscle spasticity; therefore, enhances and facilitates physical therapy and rehabilitation.
- Enhance recovery time by re-establishing serum muscle damage markers homeostasis, including creatine phosphokinase, lactate dehydrogenase, and calcium.
- Decrease pain and disability and increase functional outcomes in the frozen shoulder or adhesive capsulitis, an expected 2 to 5-year self-limiting disabling pain disorder, often causing severe shoulder pain and disability and resistance to the ambiguous conventional treatment.
Current athlete performance issues
- Overuse injuries: especially in younger athletes, have increased more than five times in the last decade; more than 50% of athletes will develop an overuse injury, and more than 30% will require surgical intervention.
- Resistant to conventional treatments: treatments of overuse disorders are complex, ambiguous, and problematic and are often incorrectly and ineffectively diagnosed and managed in primary care.
- Arthrogenic muscle inhibition: an ongoing neural inhibition that can prevent your healthy spine muscles from fully activating, even if you are pain-free. Repetitive postural straining-poor posture, overuse, and trauma to your spine are some causes and contributing factors. In addition, athletes and the active individual must understand that a dysfunctional spine segment or a “misalignment” can cause significant weakness of your healthy spine and limb muscles via shared nerve supply-segmental innervation, even if the dysfunctional spinal joint does not present with pain or other symptoms.
- Excessive and chronic inflammation, oxidative stress, and free radicals: play a vital role in the pathophysiology (cause) of exercise-induced muscle soreness and damage and musculoskeletal disorders, although in normal levels are a necessary protective defence mechanism against injury and infection.
- Vigorous exercise: cause and contribute to aberrant inflammation and oxidative stress and produce detrimental effects on muscle tissue. The inflammatory response function to localize and eliminate the harmful agent, protect the injured tissue from further damage, and remove damaged tissue components so that the body can heal itself. Free radicals are toxic by-products of oxygen metabolism that can cause severe damage to living cells and tissues in a process known as oxidative stress.
Regular spinal manipulation is essential = Maintenance care
Individuals who receive regular spinal manipulation at intervals between 1 to 3 months can reduce the number of days with acute low back pain episodes and increase the length of pain-free periods. As a result, maintenance care patients experience fewer days with lower back pain than patients invited to contact their chiropractor “when needed”.
In addition, routine spinal manipulation of asymptomatic individuals once per month may slow down the progression of spinal degeneration and associated muscle weakness and encourage a normal range of spine motion.
