St Peters Back Pain Relief Helped by Exercise
Back pain - nonspecific or chronic or subacute – can benefit from exercise. Our St Peters back pain patients know from day 1 that they can move, they can exercise safely. We share how to do simple, helpful ones that will help you feel some control over your pain. Old Mill Chiropractic is your St Peters exercise coach as well as your chiropractor who delivers spinal manipulation : the best of both realms!
EXERCISE EFFICACY FOR LOW BACK PAIN
Low back pain patients get results 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 one study of subacute nonspecific low back pain sufferers, core stabilization exercises were 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 reduce pain, enhance function, and increase core strength in nonspecific low back pain patients. (2) Spine stabilization exercises and flexion exercises performed24 daily both increased multifidus muscle thickness in patients with chronic low back pain and spondylolisthesis . (3) Advice: Choose one that you are most likely to do (after we discuss it!)! Your back pain will appreciate it.
EXERCISE FOR NON-SPECIFIC LOW BACK PAIN
Despite 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 perform 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) St Peters back pain patients desiring some pain relief are urged to do exercises as part of an 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 shared 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 above patient did, clinicians using spinal manipulation tend toward using gentler non-manual-thrust spinal manipulation while chiropractors tended to use manual thrust. Spinal manipulation was used 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 had persistent back pain after spine surgery. (7) Old Mill Chiropractic carefully examines and determines the gentlest treatment technique for your spine.
CONTACT Old Mill 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 choices may be overwhelming as well as the benefit of the gentle care via The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management that eases back pain.
Make your St Peters chiropractic appointment today. No matter the back pain source or condition, bring it to Old Mill Chiropractic. [{We will|We’ll]61] find a way forward together!
