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Is Your Pain Mostly In Your Lower Back?

Mechanical chronic low back pain results from an injury or stress on the tissues surrounding the spine, including soft tissues, muscles, bones, and joints. Oftentimes, this type of pain is due to impaired neuromuscular control and neural inhibition of the multifidus, which is the largest stabilizing muscle in your back.

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Could your back pain be due to Multifidus Dysfunction?

Multifidus Dysfunction can result from a loss of neuromuscular control. This can cause a lack of spinal support, leading to uncontrolled loading of spinal joints and discs, resulting in mechanical low back pain.

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ReActiv8 Restorative Neurostimulation

ReActiv8 Restorative Neurostimulation is a novel treatment to address the cause rather than the symptoms of mechanical chronic low back pain due to muscle dysfunction.

Is Muscle Dysfunction Causing my Low Back Pain?

Most people don’t know that the majority of back pain is actually due to muscle dysfunction. Mechanical chronic low back pain results from an injury or stress on the body's structures surrounding the spine, including joints, muscles, tendons or other bones. Oftentimes, this type of pain is due to impaired neuromuscular control and neural inhibition of the multifidus muscle, which plays a critical role in stabilizing the back. This loss of neuromuscular control of the multifidus leads to overcompensation by the other muscles in the back (erector spinae) which then begin to overload – this process leads to significant low back pain, which may worsen over time.

How do I know my back pain is due to muscle dysfunction and not something else?

You could be suffering from multifidus muscle dysfunction if you experience pain while sitting or standing in the same position for extended periods of time, or during common everyday activities requiring bending such as brushing teeth, washing dishes, or reaching for items. Needing to use your arms to return to a standing position after bending is another common sign. Your doctor can assess the functionality of your multifidus muscle through a series of physical tests performed at an office visit in combination with an MRI to confirm the presence of fatty infiltration in the multifidus muscle. Testing for multifidus muscle dysfunction is 100% non-invasive.

The good news is we can treat the cause of Multifidus Muscle Dysfunction:

ReActiv8 restorative neurostimulation is designed to address the underlying cause of mechanical low back pain by helping patients restore neuromuscular control of the multifidus muscle. Re-establishing this control relieves the other muscles in the back (erector spinae) from compensating for the absence of support from the multifidus. For patients with confirmed cases of multifidus dysfunction, conservative care or palliative treatments such as injections or radiofrequency ablations can only be expected to temporarily relieve some of the discomfort, but not correct the underlying issue.

How does ReActiv8 Restorative Neurostimulation Work?

ReActiv8 involves a minimally invasive outpatient implantation procedure - leads are placed next to nerves outside of the spinal canal and connected to an implanted pulse generator. The patient then controls the stimulation therapy with a handheld remote during two 30-minute sessions per day, which allows the system to contract and relax the multifidus muscle via the stimulation of the medial branch nerve. The ReActiv8 procedure is also reversible as it does not alter or change the structure of the spine.

Do you suffer from lower back pain?

Mechanical chronic low back pain results from an injury or stress on the tissues surrounding the spine, including soft tissues, muscles, bones, and joints. Oftentimes, this type of pain is due to impaired neuromuscular control and neural inhibition of the multifidus, which is the largest stabilizing muscle in your back.

Watch the video to learn more about neuromuscular control, proprioception, and various functions of your back muscles.

Multifidus Dysfunction can result from a loss of neuromuscular control. This can cause a lack of spinal support, leading to uncontrolled loading of spinal joints and discs, resulting in mechanical low back pain.

Watch the video to learn more about multifidus dysfunction and loss of neuromuscular control.

Image source: www.lowbackpainrecovery.com

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