Richmond Back Pain Relief Helped by Exercise
Back pain - nonspecific or chronic or subacute – can be helped with exercise. Our Richmond back pain patients know from day 1 that they can move, they can exercise safely. We share how to do easy, effective ones that will allow you some control over your condition. Johnson Chiropractic is your Richmond exercise coach as well as your spinal manipulation chiropractor: the best of both worlds!
EXERCISE EFFICACY FOR LOW BACK PAIN
Low back pain patients do well with therapeutic exercise in strengthening trunk muscles and enhancing spine stability. There is a variety of exercise options obtainable from core stabilization and strengthening to motor control exercises and muscle strengthening. In a study of subacute nonspecific low back pain sufferers, core stabilization exercises proved better than stabilization exercises regarding proprioception, balance, muscle (transverse abdoiminis, lumbar multifidus) thickness, decreasing patients’ fear of movement, and functional disability. (1) Another study stated core stabilization exercise to reduce pain, enhance function, and increase core strength in nonspecific low back pain patients. (2) Spine stabilization exercises and flexion exercises done24 daily equally helped multifidus muscle thickness in patients with chronic low back pain and spondylolisthesis . (3) Advice: Choose one that you like to do (after we discuss it!)! Your back pain will appreciate it.
EXERCISE FOR NON-SPECIFIC LOW BACK PAIN
Regardless of a diagnosis of non-specific low back pain that may frustrate you (We all want to understand what lies below our pain!), exercise offers hope of its management. A recent study reported that exercise training in-person and via multimedia/video were good for training back pain patients to correctly do the more complex motor control exercises. (4) Core exercises along with hip muscle strengthening effectively improved physical activity and function for nonspecific low back pain patients. (5) Richmond back pain patients wanting some pain relief are encouraged to exercise as part of their overall chiropractic treatment plan.
EXERCISE WITH SPINAL MANIPULATION
Combining efforts proposes additional hope for back pain patients despite the diagnosis. One case report of a 24-year-old patient with a recurrent disc herniation and pain after back surgery laminectomy described that flexion distraction spinal manipulation along with rehabilitative exercise (in this case: bird dog and core stabilization) got relief and recovery. (6) Managing back pain in patients who have undergone back surgery (laminectomy, fusion, discectomy) like the patient described above did, clinicians using spinal manipulation are inclined to using gentler non-manual-thrust spinal manipulation while chiropractors leaned toward using manual thrust. Spinal manipulation was applied less than 12 months after back surgery in 66% of cases in this study. Treating healthcare providers used spinal manipulation with 85% of patients who experienced persistent back pain after spine surgery. (7) Johnson Chiropractic carefully examines and determines the gentlest treatment technique for your spine.
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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Kurt Olding on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he describes how the many spine care choices may be overwhelming as well as the benefit of the gentle care via The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management that relieves back pain.
Schedule your Richmond chiropractic appointment soon. Whatever the back pain source or condition, bring it to Johnson Chiropractic. [{We will|We’ll]61] find a way forward together!
