LUMBAR FACET SYNDROME

Low back pain

There are many terms in common usage relating to low back pain. Lumbar facet syndrome is not one of them. We are familiar with terms like "slipped disc" and "sacro-iliac joint sprain". However, it is even more likely that your back pain is coming from small joints in your lower back called facet joints.

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To prevent the spine from toppling over, or buckling and twisting too much, each spinal bone (called a vertebra) has two boney plates that extend backwards from the spine, and interlock in an ingenious manner with its neighbours above and below.

Obviously a short leg means that this tall column stands on an unlevel foundation. There is much research revealing how a Leg Length Inequality (as it's called) can cause scoliosis, back pain and arthritis. Take a little detour down this lane, meantime I'll be preparing more information about facets for you. Hit the backspace button to return to Chiropractic-Help.com Read more: LEG LENGTH INEQUALITY ...

What does a facet look like?

These facets were not designed by our Creator for weight bearing - that is the prime function of the disc - but slack belly muscles, obesity and pregnancy cause an increased curve in the low back. This curve, seen from the side, is quite normal, and is called the lordosis. When it is increased we call it a hyper-lordosis, or exaggerated lordosis.

The joint has no direct blood supply of its own, relying on diffusion of nutrients and wastes via fluids that bathe the cartilage. Interesting research now proves that refreshment of these fluids is dependent on movement within the joint or, conversely, that joint fixation and stagnation of these fluids leads within 13 hours to the beginnings of cartilage degeneration. For more about this Immobilisation Arthritis, , the result of an unattended lumbar facet syndrome, click here: CHIROPRACTIC SUBLUXATION ...

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Spondylolysthesis

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The treatment is likely to involve ice, gentle exercises and mobilisation of the joints, vital if fixation and arthritis are not to form. S/he may also use traction and a number of other modalities.

As in ALL treatment there is a certain amount of risk involved. For more information about Iatrogenic Illness, or doctor-caused-disease, click here: IATROGENIC ILLNESS ...

Rehabilitation is vital once the symptoms of lumbar facet syndrome have subsided. If you have not yet signed up for our Chiropractic Tips - fill in your email address at the top left of this page and click on Subscribe - and you will get some simple exercises for the lumbar facet syndrome.

The following exercises too are particularly useful for the small Multifidi muscles, considered essential for low back stability.

LOWER BACK EXERCISES

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Do understand that lower back pain is extremely complex, so I can only give general guidelines. There's no substitute for a careful thorough chiropractic examination.

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