Exercise is good and beneficial. It goes hand-in-hand with chiropractic care of spine pain conditions of all sorts. Patients get to be a part of their own care and healing when they do their exercises. Old Mill Chiropractic incorporates exercise into the chiropractic treatment plan for all our St Peters patients to get them back to enjoying the quality of life they want.
Weak back muscles don’t allow fluid spinal motion in low back pain patients. Old Mill Chiropractic knows this isn’t good for our St Peters 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 there is big payoff for doing a little exercise! Muscle strengthening activity done just two days a week lowers the odds of low back pain. (And this article, as a side note, suggests that smoking is also an influential factor in your risk of getting back pain. Recommendation: Don’t smoke!) (2) Old Mill Chiropractic offers simple exercises you can do in just a few minutes from the comfort of your own bedroom if you like! They’ll make a big impact. You’ll see!
Chronic nonspecific low back pain sufferers benefit from exercises like the lumbopelvic core stabilization exercises by positively affecting the pain perception by increasing your pain threshold and reducing your pain intensity. (3) Such exercises aren’t hard; they’re just effective! Old Mill Chiropractic will who you how to do them so you can feel the best possible back pain relief. Old Mill Chiropractic is with you, our St Peters back pain patient, during 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 approaches. (4) Old Mill Chiropractic uses spinal manipulation in the form of Cox Technic, a chiropractic evidence based system of spine care.
The addition of back school to the chiropractic treatment plan enhances 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) Old Mill Chiropractic strives to educate our back pain patients as to how and why their backs hurt and how to prevent or at least diminish the chances of future occurrences. One study of just how well back school is received by back pain patients is a study of those who attended a back school at a chiropractor’s office. Back pain patients stated 95% satisfaction with taking time to attend, and 100% said it was worth the doctor’s time to present it. (6) St Peters chiropractic patients at Old Mill Chiropractic are some of the wisest and knowledgeable spine-informed people around!
Schedule a St Peters 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 upsetting you much in the future with exercise.
