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Turning Back Pain et sciatique Upside Down
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Turning Back Pain and Sciatica Upside Down Conditions › Back Pain › Low Back Pain › Text Size: A A A Turning Back Pain and Sciatica Upside Down Written by Susan Spinasanta Tweet
Have you heard about inversion therapy? Many people with back pain and sciatica find that inversion therapy performed on an inversion table provides relief. This type of inversion therapy doesn't require the use of inversion boots or hanging upside down. Although inversion boots and racks are popular, that type of inversion therapy is not for the novice but best reserved for people who are in superb health and athletic condition. This article is about inversion table therapy - an alternative that doesn't require turning completely upside down!
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What's Old is New
Inversion therapy is not a new idea! In fact, Hippocrates, the father of medicine, witnessed what is now inversion therapy as early as 400 BC. The goal of inversion therapy is to defeat the effects of gravity; the downward force that pulls everything toward earth's center.
Back Pain and Gravity
People who suffer back pain and sciatica find inversion table therapy turns gravity upside down causing this natural force to decompress the spine. Inversion therapy works a bit like spinal traction. For example, in a standing position, gravity pulls the spine downward compressing the discs, vertebral bodies, nerves, and other structures. Inversion therapy changes the physical dynamics with gravity's assistance to help relieve spinal compression. The result - the spine is temporarily lengthened and pressure on anatomical structures is reduced.
Other Benefits
Many people report that inversion table therapy is a great way to stretch muscles and ligaments, reduce muscle spasms, and improve circulation. Stretching stimulates the lymph glands to increase the flow of lymphatic fluids; part of the body's waste disposal system. Similarly, cellular health depends on good blood circulation to deliver nourishment and remove waste.
Inversion table therapy also helps to relieve motion sickness and stress. In addition, the body becomes more aware of its spatial orientation and balance when the inner ear is stimulated during inversion.
Plus -- it is not necessary for the body to be positioned completely upside down to gain benefits from inversion therapy! Unlike antigravity boots used with an inversion rack, an adjustable inversion table offers the flexibility to choose the most comfortable angle.
Dialogue with Your Doctor
Like anything that can affect your health, talk to your doctor before you start using an inversion table. This is important because certain medications and health conditions may make using an inversion table unsafe. Your doctor may recommend against inversion table therapy if you are obese, or have a detached retina, fracture, glaucoma, heart condition (circulatory problem), hernia, implanted device, middle ear or eye infection, osteoporosis, are pregnant, or have a spinal injury. There may be other medical conditions not listed that your doctor may view as a contraindication.
Getting Started with Inversion Therapy
What is the best way to start your inversion therapy program? Slowly - take it easy and take your time! Even at a 15-degree angle your body will feel a mild muscular stretch and the benefits of increased blood and lymph circulation. Most people do not need to exceed 60-degrees as the spine decompresses at this angle. Don't exceed what your body tells you!
Some of the better quality tables include a sliding backrest and a locking mechanism which allows you to combine gentle stretching and exercise movements during inversion. This might include moving the head from side-to-side, stretching the arms overhead, or performing abdominal sit-ups or crunches. Talk to your doctor or physical therapist about how often you can invert and specific movements to enhance your inversion therapy program.
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Simple Ways to Prevent the Onset of Low Back Pain
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Simple Ways to Prevent the Onset of Low Back Pain Conditions › Back Pain › Low Back Pain › Text Size: A A A Simple Ways to Prevent the Onset of Low Back Pain Written by Kimberly Wallace, Cert MDT Tweet Engage in regular fitness activity. If you are sedentary, you may want to check with your physician if you have any health problems or are over the age of forty. Also, you may want to consult with a physical therapist for injury-prevention education and with a personal trainer for instruction in proper use of the equipment at the gym.
If you sit for long periods of time, interrupt your sitting regularly to get up and move around. If your work requires a lot of sitting, space out such activities as filing, faxing, or running short errands through the office periodically through the day.
Consider taking a walk on your lunch break. · Be certain you have a good sitting position at work or in your car. Your knees should not be higher than your hips and make a habit of keeping your hips toward the back of the chair. This prevents slouching. Consider the use of a lumbar roll to keep a good sitting posture.
If you have access to an ergonomist or an ergonomic evaluation at your work site, take advantage of any recommendations they may have.
If you are gardening or performing any other activity that requires prolonged or repeated bending at the waist, straighten your back often and walk around. Intermittently perform a standing backward bending activity (place hands in the small of your back and bend backwards 5-10 times). This offsets the constant pressure in the back caused by bending forward and takes less than a minute to do every twenty to thirty minutes.
When lifting an object from the ground:
Get as close as possible to the object.After physical activity, avoid slouched postures immediately following the activity as your body cools down. Often, this is the time low back pain develops, not during the physical activity itself.Bend your knees while you maintain a hollow in your back, keeping your back erect as you squat.
Straighten the knees, not the back, as you lift the object upward.
Pivot your feet and do not twist the back as you move the object to another location.
As you lower the object to the ground or other surface, get as close as you can to the surface onto which the object is to be placed.
Bend your knees and squat as you lower the object, while maintaining the hollow in your back.
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Low Back and Pelvic Pain Treated Nonsurgically with Progressive Resistance Exercise
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Low back and pelvic pain is common. The spinal column connects the low back (lumbar spine) to the pelvis, also called the pelvic girdle. Both the lumbar spine and pelvic girdle support a great amount of the body's weight. Although low back and pelvic girdle pain is often associated with pregnancy, simple disorders such as muscle strain to more serious injuries can cause this pain.
The purpose of this article is to introduce you to progressive resistance exercise to treat low back and pelvic girdle pain. Progressive resistance exercise helps patients reach their rehabilitation goals. Such exercise works by gradually challenging the muscles to strengthen. Measuring the patient's progress from the start of a program and throughout is a key part of rehab success. Rehabilitation specialists around the world favor progressive resistance exercise, which is supported by research and good patient outcomes.
The Difference: Measuring Patient Progress
Critical to the success of an exercise program is the ability to objectively measure the patient's progress. In fact, experts say measuring function is a more reliable barometer of the patient's progress than measuring their pain! You might find it interesting to learn that not all types of exercise equipment accurately measure a patient's progress during progressive resistance exercise. This measurement concept and its importance were recognized by two innovative leaders in the field of progressive resistance exercise.
Exercise Equipment's Evolution
The idea of exercise equipment is not new. In 1865, a Swedish physician (Dr. Gustav Zander) developed mechanical therapy, which allowed progress to be measured. Doctor Zander developed 40 pieces of equipment that isolated specific joint functions. Plus the amount of resistance could be changed.
Soon, in facilities around the world, exercise equipment started to be laid out in a circuit. This allowed patients to move from one machine to the next; similar to health clubs today. Although popular, the medical community did not accept the exercise machines as having therapeutic benefits.
Efficient exercise really got on track when Arthur Jones created "Nautilus Exercise Equipment" first sold during the 1970s. His equipment revolutionized exercise and health maintenance by appealing to both men and women. Mr. Jones discovered the use of a cam to spread peak resistance throughout the entire arc of a joint's range. This exercise equipment started the whole health club industry.
Soon Nautilus had competition as Cybex entered the marketplace. The difference was Cybex was marketed to the medical community and reported on in medical journals. Cybex differed from Nautilus in that it was based on isokinetics. Isokinetic exercise is a type of active-resistive exercise with a rate-limiting device to control the speed of movement. The term isokinetic means movement occurs at a constant and equal speed. Despite Cybex's ability to produce computerized graphics displaying joint function, its clinical use was not widespread.
Arthur Jones Returns
MedX™ (Core Spinal Fitness Systems™ by MedX™) is a specific type of exercise equipment developed by Arthur Jones to treat chronic back problems. It uses isometric testing to measure spinal strength. The term isometric means static exercise, that is, without movement. MedX™ is widely used today.
MedX™ is unique in its capability to isolate the lumbar extensor muscles and force other muscles into action; such as the multifidus and erector spinae.
The extensor muscles assist in extending the spine. The multifidus is a series of paired small muscles that extend the entire length of the spine. These muscles help to stabilize, extend and rotate the spine. The erector spinae is the largest muscle mass in the back and assists in spinal flexion and stabilization.The muscles are worked in the eccentric and concentric modes. This means the muscle lengthens, develops tension and contracts to control resistance (eccentric); and shortens, develops tension and contracts against resistance (concentric).
Why Progressive Resistance Exercise is Important
Studies show that patients with chronic back pain have weaker extensor muscles (the muscles that extend and help stabilize the spine) than patients without back pain. Also, MRI studies have shed new light onto the muscular changes that occur with chronic back pain. For example, the multifidus musculature is smaller and fattier in chronic back pain patients compared with people without chronic back pain. How does this happen? Many chronic back pain patients find exercise difficult and this can cause muscle atrophy (deterioration). Why is atrophy an important consideration? Because when the multifidus is smaller, it affects the spine's capacity to stabilize the torso.
Other studies prove muscle size and function can be improved. For example, EMG studies show that with exercise the lumbar extensors (muscles that assist the low back) can be strengthened thus improving function. Researchers at the Physical Therapy Department at Queensland University of Australia used ultrasound and fine wire electrodes to evaluate muscle size and function in real time. The outcome made it clear that spinal muscles, including the multifidus, work to stabilize the torso. Therefore, it is reasonable to conclude that exercise (progressive resistance exercise) offers therapeutic benefits.
Why Progressive Resistance Exercise?
Progressive resistance exercise helps to strengthen low back muscles, reduce low back and pelvic pain, and is appropriate. Many studies prove this statement. One study reported that patients involved in a program of progressive resistance exercise had a 30% recurrence rate of back pain compared with 80% of patients who did not exercise.
MedX™ equipment, such as the MedX™ Lumbar Strengthening System (Core Spinal Fitness Systems™) enables the rehabilitation specialist to measure the patient's performance from baseline through training progression. Not only are repetitions tracked but resistance is monitored. MedX™ is the type of equipment sports teams, golfers and other athletes use. Undoubtedly, if there was a better way for professional athletes to exercise or rehabilitate, everyone would be reading about it!
Source:
Mooney, V. Effective Rehabilitation of Lumbar and Pelvic Girdle Pain. Movement, Stability and Lumbopelvic Pain. (Ed. Vleeming, Stockart and Mooney). To be published by Elsevier Science (2007).
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