Your Santa Barbara Chiropractor Can Help Ease Your Age-Related Back Pain
You know what they say, “Growing old isn’t so bad when you consider the alternative.” But, if the aging process is creating pain in your body, you are painfully aware that aging is no joke! As a chiropractor in Santa Barbara, when it comes to musculoskeletal challenges, I see too many age-related breakdowns that likely wouldn’t have happened if the exacerbating cause had been treated earlier. Pain in the back, neck, hips, knees, and even the feet are commonly the result of unnecessary stresses due to poor posture, improper gait, and repetitive overuse. If we only aware years ago how our aging body would feel today, eh? But, as they say, “hindsight is 20-20.”
Back pain is at the top of the list as the most common musculoskeletal problem to take place as we age. Back pain that is age-related is generally caused by a degenerative disorder known as Spondylosis (spine osteoarthritis).
Spondylosis is caused by prolonged erosion and weight-bearing stress on the spine that eventually undermines discs, joints, and surrounding ligaments. The location and rate of the degenerative process of spondylosis varies from person to person. The areas likely to be affected are the cervical (neck), thoriacic (mid-back), or lumbar (low back). Spondylosis symptoms are individual as well, depending on the severity of degeneration, and can run a spectrum from minor pain and numbness to gross sensory loss and muscular atrophy.
Calcium is deposited in the tissues around the vertebrae due to repetitive stresses that negatively affect the cartilage around the joints These calcific deposits, known as bone spurs, can constrict adjacent nerves, blood vessels and soft tissue. This type of compression is at the root of Spondylosis.
Regular chiropractic adjustments and overall chiropractic management is beneficial in significantly slowing the aging process of the spine whether or not you are suffering from spondylosis. It may be true that “you can’t un-ring a bell” or “turn back the hands of time,” but it isn’t too late to give your spine the good treatment it deserves. Chiropractors are experts when it comes to treatment of the spine. See your Santa Barbara Chiropractor today, for the health of your spine.
