Williamson Back Pain Relief Helped by Exercise
Back pain - nonspecific or chronic or subacute – can benefit from exercise. Our Williamson back pain patients realize from day 1 that exercise is within their ability. We share how to do simple, effective ones that will allow you some control over your condition. Apple Country Chiropractic is your Williamson exercise coach as well as your chiropractor who delivers spinal manipulation : 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 increasing 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, reducing patients’ fear of movement, and functional disability. (1) Another study reported core stabilization exercise to decrease pain, enhance function, and boost core strength in nonspecific low back pain patients. (2) Spine stabilization exercises and flexion exercises performed24 daily equally benefited multifidus muscle thickness in patients with chronic low back pain and spondylolisthesis . (3) Advice: Pick 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 being frustrating (We all want to understand what lies below our pain!), exercise offers hope of its management. A new study found that exercise training in-person and via multimedia/video were effective in training back pain patients to appropriately do the more complex motor control exercises. (4) Core exercises with the addition of hip muscle strengthening effectively enhanced physical activity and function for nonspecific low back pain patients. (5) Williamson back pain patients seeking some pain relief are encouraged to do exercises as part of their overall chiropractic treatment plan.
EXERCISE WITH SPINAL MANIPULATION
Combining efforts offers even more 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 rehab exercise (in this case: bird dog and core stabilization) found relief and improvement. (6) Managing back pain in patients who have undergone back surgery (laminectomy, fusion, discectomy) like the patient described above did, clinicians using spinal manipulation tend toward using gentler non-manual-thrust spinal manipulation while chiropractors tended to use manual thrust. Spinal manipulation was applied less than a year after back surgery in 66% of cases in this study. Treating healthcare providers delivered spinal manipulation with 85% of patients who had persistent back pain after spine surgery. (7) Apple Country Chiropractic carefully examines and determines the gentlest treatment technique for you.
CONTACT Apple Country Chiropractic
Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Kurt Olding on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he shares how the many spine care options may be a bit much to find your way through as well as the benefit of the gentle care via The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management that relieves back pain.
Make your Williamson chiropractic appointment now. Whatever the back pain source or condition, bring it to Apple Country Chiropractic. [{We will|We’ll]61] find a way forward together!
