This post is about Chiropractic West Palm Beach: Acute Locked Low Back Syndrome. Symptoms include lateral (moving sideways) antalgia (leaning away from the side of pain). In other words, you won’t be able to straighten out while standing, sitting or lying. Moreover, it may have come on without any warning to you. Typically, you will experience severe pain especially when trying to stand up after sitting. So movement will be extremely difficult. If you have Acute Locked Low Back Syndrome, Chiropractic can provide relief! We’ve got some great information to share below.
Chiropractic West Palm Beach: Causes of Acute Locked Low Back Syndrome
Acute locked back syndrome can have many causes. These can include multiple underlying biomechanical and musculoskeletal causes.
Muscle Spasm
A muscle spasm of the low back muscles may be the culprit. For example, the quadratus lumborum muscle can be a cause. It is the deepest muscle of the lumbar spine (low back). And It runs from the pelvis to the last rib. It contracts while sitting, walking and standing. Mishaps leading to acute muscle contraction are numerous. They include trauma, structural inadequacies, visceral (organ) disease, emotional distress, and even exposure to cold.
Facet Joint Irritation
A unilateral (one sided) facet joint irritation may be implicated. The facet joints become inflamed and may cause pain, soreness, stiffness and sometimes locking or imbrication (overlapping). Your facet joints are on either side of the back of each vertebra of your spine. The vertebral bodies make up the bony building blocks of the spinal column. There are two facet joints at each level of the vertebral column (spinal column). Facet joints provide stability to the spinal column while allowing movement. Encased with capsules, the synovial fluid within protects and lubricates the facet joints.
Interarticular Block
What’s called an Interarticular (existing or acting between the adjacent surfaces of a joint) Block may occur. So a source of derangement of the posterior (back) joints is speculated to result from entrapment of joint meniscoids or synovial folds. The intra-articular meniscoids are leaflike fibroadipose (fatty fibrous tissue) folds of synovium (tissue lining the inner surface of joint capsules). These meniscoids are present in all of the joints of the spine. Entrapment of these meniscoids can cause acute locked low back syndrome. Specifically, the meniscoid can be pulled out of its resting position during flexion (forward bending). Indeed, it may even be a minor movement that causes the entrapment with associated muscle spasm.
Discal Entrapment
There may be discal entrapment. And the term ‘disc’ is short for ‘intervertebral disc’. The disc is essentially divided into two parts: (1) a central, softer jelly like inner nucleus pulposus and (2) an outer tougher, dense connective tissue (fibrocartilaginous) annulus fibrosus surrounding it. The discs separate the bones of the spine (vertebrae). An acute locked low back syndrome may be due to displacement of nuclear disc material (gelatinous core) into radial fissures of a deteriorating disc. This can happen with bending on flexion. Next, when you are trying to straighten out in extension, it’s impossible. So attempting to return to an upright position illicits a painful response.
Chiropractic West Palm Beach: Acute Locked Low Back Syndrome and Proper Diagnosis
This is where a thorough exam is necessary as the separate scenarios above involve different treatment approaches! Therefore, uncovering the underlying c differences between conditions is crucial. It will lead to distinctions in therapy that might be necessary. Lastly, a thorough exam is important to rule out other disease states or traumatic events that would contraindicate (make certain therapy inadvisable) certain chiropractic adjustive therapy.
Chiropractic West Palm Beach: Acute Locked Low Back Syndrome
Dr. Natalie Meiri, your chiropractor in West Palm Beach will examine you and come up with a treatment plan to get you better. You can get pain relief and function better with chiropractic care naturally. Moreover, you can improve your health through regular chiropractic care.
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