Chiropractic Adjustments: A Surprising Way to Boost Muscle Strength
Recent research shows that chiropractic adjustments can increase muscle strength
What is a chiropractic adjustment? It is an HVLA thrust maneuver that is designed to correct spinal patho-neuro-biomechanics ( like nerve irritation)
It does this by increasing proteins like substance P (evans 2002)
The goal is to treat pain and dysfunction.
Reed, Pickar, Sozio, and Long in 2014 showed that manual therapy can increase mechanical pressure pain thresholds (decrease sensitivity)
Adjustments in the neck can result in unilateral and bilateral mechanical hypoalgesia (decrease sensitivity to painful stimuli)
Daligadu, Haavik, Yielder, Baarbe, and Murphy (2013) Showed that muscle impairment occurs where there is a muscle complaint. They also showed that muscle impairment does NOT automatically resolve when the pain symptoms improve.
This leads to deficits in proprioception and motor control (rather than the pain itself) which is why sometimes we have chronic pain conditions
A 2018 study from Christriansen, Niazi, Holt, Nedergaard, Duehr, Allen, Marshall, Turker and Haarvik showed that voluntary contraction force lasted 30 minutes and corticospinal excitability increase persisted for at least 60 minutes.
Having increased motor function for a minimum of 60 minutes can lead to athletes having increased motor function, which had led to ideas that maybe people with Parkinson’s and muscular Dystrophy could benefit. Further research on these patients is needed.
We have been helping our community for over 10+ years with their muscle and spinal problems. Please call Health Wise Chiropractic at 03 9467 7889 or book online to see if one of our Chiropractors in Sunbury or Melton/Strathtulloh could do the same for you!
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Chiropractic has moved online. We offer our online programs -STAND CORRECTED- To help you through the day. They contain health advice for your conditions, nutritional advice, and exercises for you to do at home or at the workplace to help you achieve your health goals. We understand that coming to the Chiropractic clinic may be costly and time-consuming. This way if you can't make it into the chiropractic office, you can do any of our 20+ online health programs at your leisure.
Enjoy and we hope they spark a little bit of joy and help you achieve your health goals. Each program contains - Information about the conditions - things to do and things to avoid - nutrition advice - all the stretches that are needed to help The following conditions are now available for online sessions
migraine
cervicogenic headaches
cervical facet neck pain
tension headaches
cervical radiculopathy (pins and needles in the arm originating from the neck)
shoulder impingement relief
thoracic outlet syndrome
frozen shoulder
rotator cuff
chronic lumbar (Low Back) disc pain
acute Lumbar(low back) disc pain
Lumbar facet pain
sciatica and piriformis syndrome
meniscus (knee pain)
Plantar fasciitis (Foot Pain)
Shin Splints
Tennis Elbow/Golfers elbow
Carpal tunnel Syndrome
Upper Crossed Syndrome( Poor Posture)
Lower Crossed Syndrome ( Poor Posture)
Dizziness-Vertigo
Arthritis
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TMJ (Jaw Pain)
References:
1. Reed, W. R., Pickar, J. G., Sozio, R. S., & Long, C. R. (2014). Effect of spinal manipulation thrust magnitude on trunk mechanical activation thresholds of lateral thalamic neurons. Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics, 37
2. Daligadu, J., Haavik, H., Yielder, P. C., Baarbe, J., & Murphy, B. (2013). Alterations in cortical and cerebellar motor processing in subclinical neck pain patients following spinal manipulation. Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics, 36.
3. Christiansen, T. L., Niazi, I. K., Holt, K., Nedergaard, R. W., Duehr, J., Allen, K., ... & Haavik, H. (2018). The effects of a single session of spinal manipulation on strength and cortical drive in athletes. European journal of applied physiology, 118