McHenry Back Surgery Patients Must Exercise
10,080 minutes are in a week. What do you do with all those minutes? Sleep, eat, talk, work, listen, shop, drive…exercise? Isn’t exercise number one on your list?! It is recommended that we all exercise at least 150 minutes a week. (6) That’s just
- 2 and a half hours a week.
- 5 sessions of 30 minutes a week.
- 10 sessions of 15 minutes a week.
That doesn’t seem like much, but we need to schedule it into our busy lives, don’t we? Even your McHenry chiropractor needs to do that! Time goes by so quickly for everyone, including time for your McHenry chiropractic physician at OrthoIllinois Chiropractic. Your McHenry chiropractic physician at OrthoIllinois Chiropractic encourages McHenry chiropractic patients to keep up their exercise routines even when they are feeling better and their back pain is better.
Exercise makes people happier, less depressed and sleep better. (1,2) McHenry chiropractic patients benefit like this, too! Hearts and minds are healthier when their owners exercise. (3,4) OrthoIllinois Chiropractic challenges you to get out and try a walk! See how much clearer you think and better you feel with your heart pumping. Exercise slows memory loss. (4) Exercise decreases depressive symptoms. (2) Blood pressure drops. (5) Life span may even increase due to heart workouts with aerobic exercise. (3) OrthoIllinois Chiropractic sees lots of positives from all of these!
Exercise is life-giving. Exercise is life-supporting. Exercise is all that for normal spine folks but even more important for McHenry back pain sufferers especially for McHenry post-back surgery patients who still have back pain. Post-surgical patients who exercise 150 minutes a week show a remarkable reduction in pain and reoperation rate reports a new study of post-surgery back pain patients. In this study the mean age was 57 years old. 80% of them had degenerative diagnoses. 63% had gone through a multilevel back surgery. Only 35% of them met the greater than 1400 kcal a week exercise expenditure and left them open to a second surgery (named a revision surgery). Only 26% of post back surgery patients met the more than 150 minutes a week of exercise leaving them open to degenerative diagnoses, subsequent spine surgery, and more postoperative back pain. (6) 150 minutes a week does not sound like much anymore, does it? OrthoIllinois Chiropractic knows our McHenry chiropractic patients can schedule 2.5 hours a week for their back’s sake. It's part of the whole McHenry treatment plan of chiropractic care.
Exercise before surgery. Exercise following surgery. Exercise for life. Exercise for health. Schedule your McHenry chiropractic visit today. OrthoIllinois Chiropractic is prepared to help you set up an exercise routine just for you, one your McHenry lifestyle can manage, one that you’ll be able to put time on your calendar to do.
