Spine Powerpoint
4 Easy Steps to
Maintain a
Healthy Spine
DYNAMIC SPINE CENTER
WE ARE THE SCIENCE BEHIND SPINAL HEALTH
WWW.DYNAMICSPINEPTC.COM
Dr. Dustin Walton
Originally from Valdosta, Georgia
Attended Valdosta State University for Undergraduate and received Doctorate from Life University in Marietta.
Relocated to Peachtree City with my wife, Kaylyn Walton, in
July 2014. We are expecting a little boy any day now!
Opened Dynamic Spine Center in December 2014.
We are the only Chiropractic Biophysics Certified office south of Atlanta.
Why is Spinal Health Important?
Back pain affects 85% percent of the working population in some form
The CDC found that Musculoskeletal disorders are associated with high costs to employers such as absence, lost productivity, and increased health care, disability and worker’s compensation costs.
In 2001, MSDs involved a median of 8 days away from work compared with 6 days for all nonfatal injury and illness cases
Why is Spinal Health Important?
Musculoskeletal disorders account for nearly 70 million physician office visits in the United States annually, and an estimated 130 million total health care encounters including outpatient, hospital, and emergency room visits
According to Liberty Mutual, the largest workers’ compensation insurance provider in the United
States, overexertion injuries—lifting, pushing, pulling, holding, carrying or throwing an object— cost employers $13.4 billion every year
4 Easy Steps to Maintain a Healthy Spine
Proper posture
Proper Lifting Techniques
Core Strength
Chiropractic Care
Proper Posture
A vertical line should pass through the ear, the tip of the shoulder, the hip and the ankle.
Proper Posture
Poor posture can result in pain in dysfunction in several ways sore muscles (some which are tight and some which are weak)
Changes in Spinal curvature resulting in an inability to absorb forces causing increased strain on surrounding structures.
Joint irritation
Proper Lifting
Using a proper lifting technique will involve using the muscles of your legs.
This technique will allow your back muscles to stabilize the spine.
Tips:
Stand close to the object
Place your feet shoulder width apart
Squat down to the objects level and test the weight
Use your legs to lift
Keep the load close to your body and avoid twisting.
Avoid lifting above waist level
Bend knees and slowly lower the load
Core Strength
If your core muscles are not in good shape, additional pressure can be put on the spine, which is already under the stress of supporting your entire body.
If these muscles are well maintained they help support the spine and minimize the chance of injury.
To be most effective, abdominal exercises should include focus on working the following muscles:
The abdominal muscles
The lower abdominal muscles
The outside (oblique) muscles
Core Strength - Exercises
Curl-up
Do not confuse this with a sit-up!
Slowly raise your chest, shoulders and head as a one unit off the floor without bending your lower back. Imagine that your abdominal muscles are shortening and they are pulling your shoulders off the floor.
Core Strength - Exercises
Bird-Dog
Start with on your hands under your shoulders and knees under your hips, while keeping your head, neck, and back straight
Raise your right arm and reach it forward until it’s in line with your torso
As you bring your arm forward, kick your left leg backwards until it’s straight and in line with your torso, hold for 1 second
Core Strength - Exercises
Side Bridge
Come down on your side with forearm beneath you and knees bent to about a 90-degree angle .
Press up into a side plank, pushing your hips forward so they're in the same plane as your torso, and press your top hip toward the ceiling
Repeat on your left side
Chiropractic Care
Today's growing emphasis on treatment and cost effectiveness, chiropractic manipulation is receiving widespread attention.
Chiropractic spinal manipulation is a safe and effective spine pain treatment. It reduces pain, decreases medication, rapidly advances physical therapy, and requires very few passive forms of treatment, such as bed rest.
An extensive study of all currently available care for low back problems, the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research that low back pain sufferers choose the most conservative care first. And it recommended spinal manipulation as the only safe and effective, drugless form of initial professional treatment for acute low back problems in adults.
We also recommend chiropractic as an effective form of proactive treatment – keeping patients from experiencing long term back injuries in the first place.
