Exercise is good and beneficial. Exercise is integral to the chiropractic care plan for spine pain issues of types. Patients get to be a part of their own care and healing when they do their exercises. Apple Country Chiropractic incorporates exercise into the chiropractic treatment plan for all our Williamson patients to get them back to enjoying the quality of life they want.
Lax muscles reduce motion in low back pain patients. Apple Country Chiropractic doesn’t consider this helpful at all! 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 doing a little exercise does a lot! Patients who did just 2 days of muscle strengthening a week lowered the risk for low back pain. (And this article, as a side note, suggests that smoking is also an influential factor in your risk of getting back pain. It’s best not to smoke.) (2) Apple Country Chiropractic offers simple exercises you can do in a short amount of time from the comfort of your own home if you like! You will see just how big an impact these exercises will make on your healing.
Chronic nonspecific low back pain sufferers gain from exercises like the lumbopelvic core stabilization exercises by positively affecting the pain perception by increasing your pain threshold and dropping your pain intensity. (3) These exercises are not difficult, but they do work. Apple Country Chiropractic will who you how to do them so you can feel the best possible back pain relief. Apple Country Chiropractic is with you, our Williamson back pain patient, during your whole course of healing with as much support as you need.
Back school is an additional such support. Back school and manipulation/mobilization are standards of care for managing chronic nonspecific low back pain. These two approaches are suggested over many other approaches. (4) Apple Country Chiropractic uses spinal manipulation in the form of Cox Technic, a chiropractic evidence based system of spine care.
The chiropractic treatment plan is enhanced when back school is included in the overall back pain rehabilitation plan. How? Back school fosters self-management, gives control back to the patient to help him/herself. (5) Apple Country Chiropractic tries to educate our back pain patients as to how and why their backs hurt and how to prevent or at least diminish the chances of future occurrences. One study of just how well back school is received by back pain patients is a study of those who went to a back school at a chiropractor’s office. Back pain patients reported 95% satisfaction with taking time to attend, and 100% said it was worth the doctor’s time to present it. (6) Williamson chiropractic patients at Apple Country Chiropractic are some of the most spine-smart people around!
Schedule a Williamson chiropractic appointment today. It is the natural next step in your journey toward back pain relief. You can expect much at your first visit! Your chiropractic appointment will give you a clear understanding of what caused your pain and how you might avoid its aggravation in the future with exercise.
