Manchester Diabetics with Disc Degeneration Benefit from Vitamin D

The intervertebral disc is a complex and key part of the spine. It allows pain-free motion of the spine, or not. If the disc degenerates, spinal motion deteriorates, and pain often materializes. This is even more probable for patients with diabetes. It is|It’s]5] just one more issue Manchester diabetic patients need to tackle. The newest research on diabetes and the disc reveals that vitamin D may help with the health of the disc. Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries is ready to do just that for Manchester back pain patients as well as Manchester diabetic patients who also have Manchester back pain.

Diabetes, Vitamin D, and the Disc

Diabetic patients with disc degeneration want to take Vitamin D as it prevents and even treats degenerative changes in their discs. How? By improving the content of TGF-β and IGF-1, two influential growth factor cytokines (proteins circulated by cells that control specific interactions with other cells). (1) Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries bets you’ll agree that it is astonishing how the health of the disc gets down to the very cells that make it up|of which it is composed! Those cells want Vitamin D to do their job well. Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries encourages Manchester diabetic and non-diabetic patients alike to take care of these cells nutritionally and with Manchester chiropractic spinal manipulation in the form of Cox Technic.  

Glucose Status and the Disc

The glucose status also affects the oxygen consumption rate of degenerated discs: degenerative discs in low glucose have higher oxygen consumption rates and degenerative discs in high glucose have lower oxygen consumption rates. The glucose status didn’t affect non-degenerated discs. (2) Manchester degenerated discs react differently than non-degenerated ones. Of this, Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries is sure because Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries sees it daily in taking care of our Manchester back pain patients.

Oxygen Consumption Rates and the Disc

The degenerative intervertebral disc has a substantially higher oxygen consumption rate - 3 to 5 times greater - than the non-degenerative, normal human disc.  The degenerative disc is cellularly different. This oxygen consumption rate factor changes the behavior of the disc’s cells and even the nutritional state of the disc’s tissue as nutrients are distributed to the disc through the matrix and endplates. This rate of transport of nutrients is affected by the degenerative state of the disc. (2) So when should Vitamin D be taken to safeguard and care for the Manchester degenerative disc? When the disc is healthy and even more so when it is not.

Schedule your Manchester chiropractic appointment at Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries to discuss the health status of your Manchester spinal discs and how Vitamin D may benefit them whether they are degenerated or not.