Easley Back Pain Relief Helped by Walking 90 Minutes Weekly

November 27, 2018

Just walk! It’s easy. It’s cheap. It’s useful. Walking is a great means to get healthy and remain healthy. Walking is a great way to discover relief from chronic pain and back pain. Young Chiropractic's Easley chiropractic back pain specialist often suggests walking as one of the first things to try to Easley back pain patients. Here is why…

WALK MORE. SIT LESS.

It may seem odd when Young Chiropractic inquires about your sitting habits when you visit Young Chiropractic for Easley back pain treatment and relief, but it’s not! It’s well known and now even research documented that sitting for extended periods of time is a risk factor for low back pain. The new research reports more emphatically that extensive sitting and low physical activity boosts low back pain risk even more. (1) Young Chiropractic’s curiosity about your sitting habits is logical! Young Chiropractic’s recommendation to walk is, too.

Easley WALKING BENEFITS

Easley walking is beneficial for Easley back pain relief as well as the back pain relieving Easley chiropractic care at Young Chiropractic! Walking is good for chronic musculoskeletal pain sufferers like those with low back pain, fibromyalgia and osteoarthritis. Walking is an effective type of exercise for chronic pain relief and is associated with significant improvements in pain and function. (2) Exercise and physical activities like muscle strengthening and aerobic exercise have plenty of backing for effectively dealing with low back pain. Weekly walking is expanding more and more favor to be added to this list of effective exercises. For over-50 year olds, weekly walking of 90 minutes a week decreases the risk of low back pain. Elongated walking sessions are seemingly better. Routine walking with lengthier duration for more than 3 days a week is significantly affiliated with reduced low back pain risk. (3) Excitingly, a walking program is research-documented to offer the cheapest costs and the highest level of adherence by back pain patients. (4) Young Chiropractic understands that our Easley chiropractic patients will like that balance!

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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Amanda Harris on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson about how well Cox® Technic helped a spinal stenosis back pain patient return to walking and begin again to enjoy.

Schedule a Easley chiropractic appointment now. Young Chiropractic understands that Easley back pain sufferers want pain relief. The suggestion of “just walk” may be the right one for you! Walking is easy, cheap, and on your own time!

Easley walking 3 days a week helps manage back pain, a great addition to Easley chiropractic care at Young Chiropractic!