Darn your disc!

Not darn your disc in a shaming type of way way, but in a mending and correcting and rebuilding way!

Old Mill Chiropractic is all about mending the spinal disc. For those St Peters back pain and neck pain victims, the disc is a pain. If you have back pain, you surely agree. The intervertebral disc is the cartilage material between the vertebral bones of your spine. The disc is the shock absorber, the buffer to prevent your bones from rubbing on each other. The healthy disc keeps us tall. The unhealthy, degenerated disc shrinks us. Old Mill Chiropractic offers a St Peters non-surgical treatment plan which encompasses nutritional supplementation to reduce back pain due to unhealthy discs.

Glycosaminoglycan is a component of aggrecan, a major component of the disc’s make-up. Loss of aggrecan impairs the disc function and leads to disc degeneration. Granted disc degeneration due to aggregan loss is a long process, for some as long as decades. But Old Mill Chiropractic grabs onto the possibility that the degenerative process may be stopped or slowed at least by restoring the aggrecan, via feeding the disc with nutrients that it needs via supplementation. (1) Further, researchers report that glucosamine lessens the decrease of aggrecan and even prevents the death of nucleus pulposus (the center part of the disc) cells. (2)

So the poor disc has a big job. It holds the bones apart despite being compressed by the two bones. That’s its job. It has to withstand a large compressive load all day long. So don’t “darn” your disc when it hurts. Feed it. Rest it. Darn it with supplementation. Get it the St Peters chiropractic care it needs. Contact Old Mill Chiropractic today.