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Chiropractic Spine Sports And Rehabilitation Presents the Influence of the Brain/Spine Connection in Back Pain

The brain and the spine. They’re connected. They’re connected more intimately than any of us realize as we go about our daily lives. Chiropractic Spine Sports And Rehabilitation keeps this connection in mind as we treat our Tonawanda back pain sufferers’ spines and pay attention to their stories of pain and ways of coping. Tonawanda chiropractic care at Chiropractic Spine Sports And Rehabilitation respects the brain and spine connection and use gentle, safe chiropractic services incorporating spinal manipulation to reduce pain affecting both.

BRAIN CHANGES IN Tonawanda BACK PAIN

Pain changes the brain. A person in pain feels it. Special tests today can reveal it. BOLD (blood oxygen level dependent) responses were analyzed after stimulating lumbar spinous processes with manipulation and exhibited activity in the secondary somatosensory cortex, cerebellum and other parts of the brain. (1) Motor cortex stimulation triggers a spinal anti-inflammatory response to decrease pain. (2) Depression, anxiety, cognitive deficits often accompany chronic constriction of the sciatic nerve due to its effect on the medial prefrontal cortex. (3) Spinal manipulation may be a means to deal with the brain changes in chronic pain and its related issues.

SHORT TERM STIMULATION’S EFFECT ON BRAIN

Stimulating the brain even for a short time may influence the pain experience. A recent study on Euclidean distance between cortical sources and temporal dynamics of plastic changes in the somatosensory cortex of the brain had even your Tonawanda chiropractor’s mind spinning a little! What a subject! Without having to grasp all these terms and measurements shared in the study, know that the study shared that the brain, even the adult brain, is pliable. Of course, the young developing brain is most impressionable, but with the appropriate input, the older, adult brain can change. The researchers in this study took measurements before and after stimulation and compared them on MRI. They noticed a difference. More research should be done, but they did explain that long term experience establishes cortical organization while occasional, new and different stimulation can spark cortical reorganization of the adult brain. Such changes have been discovered in musicians, Braille readers, and persons after spinal manipulation and stroke rehab. (4) This knowledge of the brain informs the Tonawanda chiropractic treatment plan!

BRAIN CHANGES WITH CHRONIC PAIN

Just how is the chiropractic treatment plan affected with such information of the brain? Let us start by looking at the brain with chronic pain. The two brain regions that encode the intensity of pain and add to the whole experience of chronic pain are the primary somatosensory cortex and posterior insular cortex. (5) The cortex of the brain was discovered to be thinner in chronic low back pain patients. Post-treatment, the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex is thicker. To the researchers, this implied that treating chronic pain can reestablish normal brain functions. (6) Chiropractic Spine Sports And Rehabilitation treats Tonawanda back pain patients all day long. It is amazing to think that treatment might alter more than the pain response alone!

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Listen to this PODCAST by Dr. James Cox on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he explains more clearly the brain and spine and pain connection, describes in more depth how the cells of the body are constantly remodeling and adjusting to their ever-changing mechanical environment, and how chiropractic may intervene positively.

Schedule a non-surgical Tonawanda chiropractic care appointment with Chiropractic Spine Sports And Rehabilitation for your pain, brain, and spine! The connection is there between pain and the brain. Chiropractic Spine Sports And Rehabilitation can get in the center of those two and help you get some Tonawanda pain relief.

 
Chiropractic Spine Sports And Rehabilitation looks at the connection between the brain and spine in back pain patients to better help them find pain relief. 
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