McHenry Back Pain Relief Helped by Exercise
Back pain - nonspecific or chronic or subacute – can benefit from exercise. Our McHenry back pain patients know from day 1 that they can exercise safely and gently. We share how to do easy, effective ones that will allow you some control over your condition. OrthoIllinois Chiropractic is your McHenry exercise coach as well as your chiropractor who delivers spinal manipulation : the best of both worlds!
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 a 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 stated core stabilization exercise to decrease pain, improve function, and increase core strength in nonspecific low back pain patients. (2) Spine stabilization exercises and flexion exercises performed24 daily equally 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 appreciate it.
EXERCISE FOR NON-SPECIFIC LOW BACK PAIN
Despite 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 effective in training back pain patients to correctly do the more complex motor control exercises. (4) Core exercises along with hip muscle strengthening effectively improved physical activity and function for nonspecific low back pain patients. (5) McHenry back pain patients desiring some pain relief are urged to perform exercises as part of their overall chiropractic treatment plan.
EXERCISE WITH SPINAL MANIPULATION
Combining efforts offers additional hope for back pain patients regardless of 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) got relief and improvement. (6) In caring for back pain in patients who have undergone back surgery (laminectomy, fusion, discectomy) like the above patient did, clinicians receiving spinal manipulation tend toward using gentler non-manual-thrust spinal manipulation while chiropractors leaned toward using manual thrust. Spinal manipulation was applied less than 12 months after back surgery in 66% of cases in this study. Treating healthcare providers utilized spinal manipulation with 85% of patients who had persistent back pain after spine surgery. (7) OrthoIllinois Chiropractic carefully examines and decides the gentlest treatment technique for your spine.
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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Kurt Olding on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he describes how the many spine care choices may be overwhelming as well as the benefit of the gentle care via The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management that alleviates back pain.
Make your McHenry chiropractic appointment soon. No matter the back pain source or condition, bring it to OrthoIllinois Chiropractic. [{We will|We’ll]61] find a way forward together!
