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. Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries knows our Manchester chiropractic patients just want to get back to doing what they want to do, what they used to do.
Weak back muscles don’t allow fluid spinal motion in low back pain patients. Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries knows this isn’t good for our Manchester back pain patients! Why do back pain patients have weaker muscles? 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)
One article shares that doing a little exercise does a lot! Patients who did just 2 days of muscle strengthening a week reduced the risk for low back pain. (And this article, as a side note, shares that smoking is also a powerful factor in the equation of whether you get back pain or not. Recommendation: Don’t smoke!) (2) Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries offers simple exercises you can do in just a few minutes from the comfort of your own bedroom if you like! You’ll notice the difference these make!
Chronic nonspecific low back pain sufferers gain from exercises like the lumbopelvic core stabilization exercises by positively influencing the pain perception by improving your pain threshold and dropping your pain intensity. (3) These exercises are not difficult, but they do work. Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries will share them with you so you can experience the most possible back pain relief. Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries is with you, our Manchester back pain patient, through 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 handling chronic nonspecific low back pain. These two approaches are recommended over many other types of care. (4) Cox Technic, an evidence based system of spine care, is spinal manipulation that Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries chooses to use.
Adding back school to the chiropractic treatment plan enriches the good outcomes of back pain rehabilitation. How? Back school fosters self-management, gives control back to the patient to take care of him/herself. (5) Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries strives to educate our back pain patients as to how and why their backs hurt and how to avoid or at least curtail future occurrences. A survey of patients who went to a back school in a chiropractor’s office showed 95% satisfaction with having gone to the course and 100% support of the doctor’s giving it. (6) Manchester chiropractic patients at Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries are some of the most spine-smart people around!
Schedule a Manchester chiropractic appointment today. You’ll be well on your way to 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 are able to contribute to its not bothering you much in the future with exercise.
