Latest News in Gentle St Peters Exercise for Chronic Low Back Pain Relief
Chronic low back pain (CLBP) slows life down for its sufferers. St Peters chronic low back pain sufferers want their lives back. Old Mill Chiropractic offers a chiropractic treatment plan with options that do just that. The treatment plan often incorporates chiropractic spinal manipulation like Cox® Technic together with gentle exercise and nutrition. A few new insights about effective exercise interventions are presented here for our St Peters back pain patients’ consideration as it is up to you to select what exercise works for you!
WALKING AND MIND-BODY THERAPIES: Gentle Exercise Options
Walking works, so do mind-body therapies like yoga. An analysis of 31 randomized control trials of 3193 participants, walking came across as effective as control interventions for short term relief of chronic low back pain and slightly superior for intermediate term pain relief and activity limitation improvement while yoga was more effective for pain and activity limitation improvement in the short term. Combining both walking and yoga was proposed as a valuable combination for CLBP patients. (1) In an analysis of 18 randomized controlled trials, yoga was reported to decrease pain in the short to intermediate term and to improve functional disability from short to long term when compared with non-exercise, usual care, and education. But it had equal effects on pain and disability as other exercise types or physical therapy. (2) Most everyone can take a stroll. Some enjoy physical therapy exercise. Most can do yoga if they want. Old Mill Chiropractic understands that not every exercise option may be our St Peters back pain sufferer’s "cup of tea”! Options are key to participation...and Old Mill Chiropractic has them!
MOTOR CONTROL EXERCISES
One group of researchers wrote that present evidence doesn’t propose that any one form of exercise is superior to any other for back pain relief. That’s interesting! They did state that exercise is modestly effective treatment for chronic low back pain, a substantial health and socioeconomic issue (cost, disability, missed work). The most common form of exercise for back pain relief was described as being motor control exercise working on the deep muscles and their coordination. Supposedly not superior to other types of exercise, motor control exercise should be an option for chronic low back pain patients among other forms of exercise. The researchers suggested that the choice should be made by the patient in collaboration with his/her doctor/therapist. (3) Old Mill Chiropractic talks with each St Peters back pain sufferer to find out what exercise will work and will be done. That’s the key!
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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Benjamin Fonke on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he describes the advantage of exercise incorporation into The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.
Make your St Peters chiropractic appointment today. When CLBP has slowed your life down, Old Mill Chiropractic’s chiropractic treatment plan with Cox® Technic and exercise that you will do can get your life’s pace back to speed.
