McHenry Chiropractic Exercise Recommendation Benefits for Sleep and Back Pain
Exercise. McHenry back pain sufferers hear the recommendation to exercise a lot. OrthoIllinois Chiropractic recommends it, also. Exercise keeps showing its benefit for low back pain relief and prevention…plus a new report reveals benefit for improved sleep quality!
EXERCISE FOR RELIEF OF THE BURDEN OF LOW BACK PAIN
Low back pain is a burden for the low back pain sufferer, the family, the community, and the healthcare system. Healthcare providers and researchers examine proposed long-term methods to decrease this problem for whose sufferers’ disability continues. Exercise leads the list of non-invasive, non-drug general recommendations along with manual therapy and massage. (1) OrthoIllinois Chiropractic is the McHenry back pain specialty clinic to which many back pain sufferers see.
BACK PAIN SPECIALIST’S PLAN FOR BACK PAIN RELIEF ADDS EXERCISE
Many chronic back pain sufferers take themselves to their primary care practitioners first. It’s a pretty standard routing. Primary care recommendations for chronic low back pain care typically involve exercise, oral prescriptions of NSAIDs and SNRI’s like duloxetine. In research, there is an interesting statistic called “number to treat” which indicates the number of patients with a certain condition who need to have it done the treatment recommendation for 1 of them to get benefit. In this recent study, the number to treat for 1 chronic low back pain patient to report benefit from exercise was 7, from NSAIDs 6, and SNRIs 10. Of these three options, exercise was the only intervention that showed continued chronic low back pain relief after the intervention ended and up to 48 weeks later. (2) Exercise is a valued, self-management, non-drug alternative for chronic low back pain patients. OrthoIllinois Chiropractic always incorporates it in the McHenry chiropractic treatment plan. Exercise places some control of chronic low back pain in our McHenry chiropractic patients’ hands.
WHAT ABOUT SLEEP AND EXERCISE?
Another advantageous patient-controlled option is sleep-and-exercise. Lack of sleep – time and/or quality – is a problem for so many McHenry chiropractic patients. OrthoIllinois Chiropractic often hears our patients bring up sleep difficulties. Sleep is rejuvenating for the body and the mind. Exercise is manytimes prescribed to address sleep and mood issues. A noteworthy study about the relationship between sleep and exercise highlights some interesting findings in young men and women. There are differences for each! Men who exercised more often reported falling asleep faster, less daytime trouble, and less depressive mood. Women who exercised more often went to bed early, experienced improved sleep quality, and reported more benefit from sleep, less depressive mood, and less anger. (3) Regular exercise is important for so many issues!
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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Pamela Aaron on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as she shares a case of a young lady with low back pain and her treatment with the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management plus strengthening exercise that improved her condition.
Schedule your McHenry chiropractic appointment now. “Exercise.” It is a recommendation OrthoIllinois Chiropractic will keep sharing for back pain relief and prevention as well as sleep improvement.
