“You’re young! You don’t have to worry about
back pain.” Not true! New research confirms 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 take
care of a loved one coping with its back pain or neck pain
ramifications. Pensacola Spinal Rehab Center is here for young and
old alike when Pensacola disc degeneration disrupts your quality of
life.
DDD STARTS EARLIER THAN ONCE THOUGHT
It’s hard to believe, but it is reported
in the medical literature. Disc degeneration starts in the late
teens! A study of 18-20 year old healthy
air force cadets uncovered that 77% had13
disc degeneration or disc herniation. (1) That is new news! It’s been written
elsewhere that disc degeneration starts at
age 20. Now it’s found to rear its head
in 18 year olds! In this project MRIs were done on
all cadets. They all reported no spine pain. The
MRIs revealed that: 30% showed at least one disc’s
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 expected
in adults. (1) It is never too early to take
care of the spine! Pensacola Spinal Rehab Center takes care of spines at all ages 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 new study had mutations
in their collagen-encoding genes. Collagen is vital 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
affects the nucleus pulposus, annulus fibrosus and end plates.
(2) Certainly, the whole reason about why a disc
degenerates is not fully known yet. Pensacola Spinal Rehab Center
does have ways to restrain and relieve the pain of
a Pensacola degenerated disc.
INTERRUPTING DISC DEGENERATION, PROMOTING DISC REGENERATION
Researchers described disc degeneration as a
cascade of mechanical, biochemical, and structural alterations
at the cellular level, cells that are in an abnormal mechanical environment.
Regeneration of such cells would require 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) Pensacola Spinal Rehab Center uses Cox® Technic
to gently create 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)
Pensacola Spinal Rehab Center takes it one more step with the Cox® Technic
system of spinal pain management by adding spinal nutrition (especially
disc nutrition supplementation) and exercise to boost the relief
and clinical outcome for Pensacola back pain patients.
CONTACT Pensacola Spinal Rehab Center
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 Pensacola chiropractic appointment at
Pensacola Spinal Rehab Center for your spine’s health. You may not be too young for back pain, and you are undoubtedly
not too young to look after your spine. A Pensacola
chiropractic treatment plan of spinal manipulation, nutrition and exercise can be
good for all ages of back pain and neck pain sufferers due to
disc degeneration.