Exercise is Beneficial for Leg Pain Relief

Intermittent claudication and sciatics are leg pains having many beginnings like disc herniation and spinal stenosis. Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries’s chiropractic care offers a solid treatment plan to ease your leg pain, but we’ll also discuss the imperative role of exercise to relieve and manage your leg pain. We’re a team with the same goal: pain relief and prevention!

walk for leg pain reliefSciatica – Leg Pain Due to Disc Herniation

Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries knows you wouldn't think it, but exercising when you hurt helps. It really does! In people with leg pain due to a disc herniation, researchers find that patients who exercise get better strength and flexibility and report less pain. (1) Really!

Now, one study puts forward isometric exercise – exercising against resistance - at day 14 after the break out of leg pain. (1) Don’t be surprised if Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries gets you started sooner with exercise. This passes some of the management to you. (Of course, don’t start any exercise until we talk to you about it!) But you can help yourself, and we want to help you do that. Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries is here as your ally in healing as well as prevention of future back pain as well as related leg pain. It’s your body and back ultimately!

Intermittent Claudication – Leg Pain Due to Peripheral Artery Disease or Spinal Stenosis 

Intermittent claudication cramps not just your legs, but also your Manchester lifestyle! To improve walking, walking is recommended. We know, it’s obvious, but it works. But resistance training and weight lifting may also help improve walking. (2) The design of these exercise options is the same: get the blood flowing!

“But, Doc, I Hurt Too Much to Exercise.”
Exercise in the water to start.
Oh how often we hear that at Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries! We understand and empathize. However, we have a suggestion, a research-based suggestion no less! If you are in too much pain, consider exercising in the water. Researchers note that water exercise is less stressful on muscles. Not too surprising, but they documented it! So start with aquatic back exercises and move to land as you feel less pain and strengthen your muscles. (3) Check out the Manchester pools near you. You’ll be glad you did!

Review these reference articles about the benefits of exercise for leg pain relief. Chat with Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries about the exercises appropriate for you, then try some water-based exercise and build up to doing them on land or the exercise ball.

We look forward to your progress with Manchester's chiropractic treatment and exercise!

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