Exercise is good and beneficial. It goes hand-in-hand with chiropractic care of spine pain conditions of all sorts. Exercise also allows the patient to take part in their healing. OrthoIllinois Chiropractic knows our McHenry chiropractic patients just want to get back to doing what they want to do, what they used to do.
Lax muscles reduce motion in low back pain patients. OrthoIllinois Chiropractic knows this isn’t good for our McHenry back pain patients! What makes these muscles weak? Fat. With back pain comes more fat infiltration into the back muscles, muscles like the lumbar multifidus muscles which greatly influence the range of motion in lumbar spine. Fattier multifidi, less lumbar flexion. (1)
Researchers find that there is big payoff for doing a little exercise! Patients who did just 2 days of muscle strengthening a week lowered the risk for low back pain. (And this article, as a side note, shares that smoking is also an influential factor in the equation of whether you get back pain or not. It’s best not to smoke.) (2) OrthoIllinois Chiropractic presents simple exercises you can do in just a few minutes from the comfort of your own home if you like! You’ll notice the difference these make!
Chronic nonspecific low back pain sufferers benefit from exercises like the lumbopelvic core stabilization exercises by positively affecting the pain perception by increasing your pain threshold and reducing your pain intensity. (3) Such exercises aren’t tough; they’re just effective! OrthoIllinois Chiropractic will who you how to do them so you can feel the best possible back pain relief. OrthoIllinois Chiropractic is with you, our McHenry back pain patient, through your whole course of healing with as much support as you need.
Back school is another such support. Back school and manipulation/mobilization are standards of care for handling chronic nonspecific low back pain. These two approaches are recommended over many other approaches. (4) Cox Technic, an evidence based system of spine care, is spinal manipulation that OrthoIllinois Chiropractic chooses to use.
The chiropractic treatment plan is enriched when back school is added to the overall back pain rehabilitation plan. How? Back school nurtures self-management, gives control back to the patient to help him/herself. (5) OrthoIllinois Chiropractic tries to educate our back pain patients as to how and why their backs hurt and how to avoid or at least minimize future occurrences. One study of just how well back school is received by back pain patients is a study of those who went to a back school at a chiropractor’s office. Back pain patients stated 95% satisfaction with taking time to attend, and 100% said it was worth the doctor’s time to share the material. (6) McHenry chiropractic patients at OrthoIllinois Chiropractic are some of the wisest and knowledgeable spine-informed people around!
Schedule a McHenry chiropractic appointment today. It’s the first step toward back pain relief and its prevention. You can expect much at your first visit! Your chiropractic appointment will give you a firm grasp of what caused your pain and how you are able to contribute to its not disturbing you much in the future with exercise.
