Easley Back Pain Relief Helped by Exercise
Back pain - nonspecific or chronic or subacute – can be helped with exercise. Our Easley back pain patients realize from day 1 that they can exercise safely and gently. We share how to do easy, helpful ones that will help you feel some control over your condition. Young Chiropractic is your Easley 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 are many 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 in terms of proprioception, balance, muscle (transverse abdoiminis, lumbar multifidus) thickness, reducing patients’ fear of movement, and functional disability. (1) Another study reported core stabilization exercise to decrease pain, enhance function, and increase core strength in nonspecific low back pain patients. (2) Spine stabilization exercises and flexion exercises done24 daily both benefited 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 thank you.
EXERCISE FOR NON-SPECIFIC LOW BACK PAIN
Regardless of a diagnosis of non-specific low back pain that may frustrate you (We all want to understand what lies below our pain!), exercise offers hope of its management. A recent study reported that exercise training in-person and via multimedia/video were good for training back pain patients to appropriately do the more complex motor control exercises. (4) Core exercises with the addition of hip muscle strengthening effectively improved physical activity and function for nonspecific low back pain patients. (5) Easley back pain patients wanting some pain relief are urged to exercise as part of their 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) found relief and recovery. (6) In caring for back pain in patients who have already had back surgery (laminectomy, fusion, discectomy) like the above patient did, clinicians receiving spinal manipulation are inclined to 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 used spinal manipulation with 85% of patients who experienced persistent back pain after spine surgery. (7) Young Chiropractic thoroughly examines and decides the gentlest treatment technique for your spine.
CONTACT Young 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 options may be overwhelming as well as the benefit of the gentle care via The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management that relieves back pain.
Make your Easley chiropractic appointment today. Whatever the back pain source or condition, bring it to Young Chiropractic. [{We will|We’ll]61] find a way forward together!
