Manchester Back Pain Relief Helped by Exercise
Back pain - nonspecific or chronic or subacute – can benefit from exercise. Our Manchester back pain patients realize from day 1 that they can exercise safely and gently. We share how to do simple, helpful ones that will help you feel some control over your pain. Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries is your Manchester exercise coach as well as your spinal manipulation chiropractor: the best of both realms!
EXERCISE EFFICACY FOR LOW BACK PAIN
Low back pain patients do well with therapeutic exercise in strengthening trunk muscles and enhancing spine stability. There are many 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 showed that they were better than stabilization exercises in terms of 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, improve function, and increase core strength in nonspecific low back pain patients. (2) Spine stabilization exercises and flexion exercises performed24 daily equally helped multifidus muscle thickness in patients with chronic low back pain and spondylolisthesis . (3) Advice: Pick one that you are most likely to do (after we discuss it!)! Your back pain will thank you.
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 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) Manchester back pain patients desiring some pain relief are urged to exercise as part of their overall chiropractic treatment plan.
EXERCISE WITH SPINAL MANIPULATION
Combining efforts offers 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 improvement. (6) Managing back pain in patients who have already had 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 delivered spinal manipulation with 85% of patients who experienced persistent back pain after spine surgery. (7) Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries thoroughly examines and decides 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 shares how the many spine care choices 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 eases back pain.
Schedule your Manchester chiropractic appointment soon. Whatever the back pain source or condition, bring it to Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries. [{We will|We’ll]61] find a path forward together!
