Exercise is effective and helpful. It goes hand-in-hand with chiropractic care of spine pain conditions of all sorts. Patients get to be a part of their own care and healing when they do their exercises. Chiropractic Spine Sports And Rehabilitation knows our Tonawanda chiropractic patients just want to get back to doing what they want to do, what they used to do.
Weak back muscles don’t allow fluid spinal motion in low back pain patients. Chiropractic Spine Sports And Rehabilitation knows this isn’t good for our Tonawanda back pain patients! What makes these muscles weak? Fat. With back pain comes more fat infiltration into the back muscles, muscles like the lumbar multifidus muscles which greatly influence the range of motion in lumbar spine. Fattier multifidi, less lumbar flexion. (1)
Researchers find that there is big payoff for doing a little exercise! Muscle strengthening activity performed just two days a week lowers the odds of low back pain. (And this article, as a side note, shares that smoking is also a powerful factor in the equation of whether you get back pain or not. Recommendation: Don’t smoke!) (2) Chiropractic Spine Sports And Rehabilitation offers simple exercises you can do in a short amount of time from the comfort of your own bedroom if you like! You’ll notice the difference these make!
Chronic nonspecific low back pain sufferers benefit from exercises like the lumbopelvic core stabilization exercises by positively affecting the pain perception by improving your pain threshold and dropping your pain intensity. (3) These exercises are not difficult, but they do work. Chiropractic Spine Sports And Rehabilitation will who you how to do them so you can feel the most possible back pain relief. Chiropractic Spine Sports And Rehabilitation is with you, our Tonawanda back pain patient, during your healing process with as much support as you need.
Back school is an additional such support. Back school and manipulation/mobilization are standards of care for handling chronic nonspecific low back pain. These two approaches are recommended over many other approaches. (4) Cox Technic, an evidence based system of spine care, is spinal manipulation that Chiropractic Spine Sports And Rehabilitation chooses to use.
The chiropractic treatment plan is enriched when back school is added to the overall back pain rehabilitation plan. How? Back school fosters self-management, gives control back to the patient to help him/herself. (5) Chiropractic Spine Sports And Rehabilitation attempts to educate our back pain patients as to how and why their backs hurt and how to avoid or at least diminish the chances of future occurrences. A survey of patients who attended a back school in a chiropractor’s office showed 95% satisfaction with having gone to the course and 100% support of the doctor’s giving it. (6) Tonawanda chiropractic patients at Chiropractic Spine Sports And Rehabilitation are some of the most spine-smart people around!
Schedule a Tonawanda chiropractic appointment today. It is the natural next step in your journey to back pain relief. You can expect much at your first visit! Your chiropractic appointment will give you a firm grasp of what caused your pain and how you are able to contribute to its not upsetting you much in the future with exercise.
