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Improve Your Golf Game with Chiropractic Care

January 26, 2022 by Dr. Jessica Mobley Leave a Comment

For your body to perform optimally, you should aim for 150 minutes of moderate exercise or 75 minutes of intensive exercise weekly.

The workout you go for does not matter as much as sustaining over time does. It, therefore, helps to pick an activity you enjoy doing. For golfers, golfing is as great an exercise as any other. The walking, swinging and carrying clubs throughout the golf course can work multiple muscles in your body as you enjoy your game.

With that said, you should always play with good form to avoid injuries and to make the most out of the game.

Can Chiropractic Care Help?

Like most golfers, you are likely to be constantly on the lookout for ways to improve your game. Chiropractic care is one way to accomplish this.

Golf begins with a swing, the all-important bit of golf. When swinging, an enormous amount of compressive force, at times up to ten times your body weight, is placed on the spine. That aside, nearly all joints used in a swing go through a full range of motion.

Sadly, most golfers you see on the course experience some level of sport-related pain. These aches and pains relate to improper form or repetitive swinging.

When this happens, golfers tend to think that better clubs might help ease the aches and pains. While this is true in some cases, it does not cover the entire scope of golfing injuries. Studies have shown that the largest barrier to enhanced performance on the course is the physical shape a golfer is in.

Understandably so. An 18-hole golfing course requires one to walk about five to six miles. Aside from walking, swinging, twisting and bending over are also involved. These movements take their toll on the body.

A golf swing, for one, can compress cartilage in the knees and discs of the spine. It can also cause tendonitis and arthritis in the back, knees, elbows and more.

You need unrestricted motion in the spine, pelvis, and joints to swing properly. Picture your body as a top and your spine as an axis where your arms, hands and golf club rotate. If the axis is balanced, the top moves quickly and smoothly. If it’s unstable, there is a possibility of it toppling over.

Studies have shown that chiropractic care can treat and prevent golfing injuries over time. But not just that, but it can also improve golf performance.

One such study, published in the Journal of Chiropractic Medicine, showed that chiropractic care accompanied by stretching is associated with a better golf swing than stretching alone.

Other findings have shown that chiropractic care can;

Enhance strength

Chiropractic care aligns your neck, spine, arms and improves your central nervous system. This allows your brain and body to work together optimally during play.

Improved flexibility

Muscle stiffness is one sure path to sporting injuries. Chiropractic care helps enhance one’s flexibility, which lessens instances of inflammation, excess tension and ultimately, injuries.

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What Causes Lower Back Pain?

January 26, 2022 by Dr. Derek Mobley Leave a Comment

According to estimates, 80% of Americans will experience lower back pain at one point in their lives.

Unfortunately, knowing you are in good company does not make low back pain less uncomfortable or disruptive. Back pain can get so bad for some people that it significantly affects their quality of life and day to day functioning.

What are the causes of lower back pain? Read more on that here.

1. Deformity

Curvature of the spine can include kyphosis, lordosis or scoliosis. If a deformity is associated with the breakdown of discs, stenosis, facet joints and sacroiliac joints, it can also cause lower back pain.

2. Osteoarthritis

Osteoarthritis results from the wear and tear of facet joints and discs. This can cause instability, pain, inflammation and stenosis to some degree. Osteoarthritis can occur on multiple levels of the lower spine.

Spinal osteoarthritis is also known as degenerative joint disease. It’s associated with ageing and is slowly progressive.

3. Pregnancy

Many women will experience some back pain during pregnancy. This pain is linked to multiple factors of pregnancy.

The first is weight gain. Women add weight during pregnancy, and the weight of the baby and the uterus adds more pressure to the nerves and blood vessels surrounding the pelvis and the back. This can cause discomfort.

Other causes are changes in posture as a pregnant woman tries to adjust to the shifting centre of gravity, muscle separation and hormonal changes that occur in pregnancy.

4. Spinal stenosis

The pain from spinal stenosis comes from narrowing of the spinal canal where nerve roots sit. This narrowing can be foramina, central or both.

It can also happen at one or more levels of the lower back.

5. Stains

Ligaments and muscles in the lower back can tear or stretch from excess activity. These symptoms include pain in the lower back and even muscle spasms.

Once you identify the source of the strain, avoid it and rest the back, the lower back pain should subside.

6. Bulging or ruptured discs

Discs function as cushions between the vertebrae (bones) in your spine. However, there is soft material inside the disc that can rupture or bulge and press on a nerve. This can cause lower back pain.

However, many people can have a ruptured disc without causing back pain. Often, disc diseases are identified when an individual goes in for an x-ray for something else.

7. Health conditions

Certain health conditions will have back pain as a symptom. Examples of these include;

Fibromyalgia is a condition that causes long-term tenderness and pain in the joints, muscles, and tendons.

Spondylosis: this is a degenerative disorder that can cause the loss of normal spinal function and structure. This condition is typically linked to age but its rate of progression.

Conclusion

If you suffer from back pain, you will be happy to know that you have several options to consider.

These include medication, surgery, physiotherapy and chiropractic care. Any of these options can help you regain control of your health.

Filed Under: Arthritis, Herniated Disc, Mount Pleasant Chiropractor, Osteoporosis, Sciatica, Scoliosis

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