McHenry Chiropractic Back Pain Relief Benefits from Regular Exercise
Independence. It’s an admirable quality. Sometimes. When it comes to exercise, getting a bit of guidance more often is better. OrthoIllinois Chiropractic is equipped to be your guide! McHenry back pain sufferers can depend on OrthoIllinois Chiropractic to establish, demonstrate and supervise an exercise routine that is pain relieving just for you!
BENEFIT OF SUPERVISED EXERCISE
Research shows that supervised exercise therapy begets significant symptom relief and improved quality of life for patients with intermittent claudication by boosting maximal walking distance in just 3 months. Sadly, it is not used enough. Home based exercise therapy with observation tools like a pedometer or logbook and walking are other helpful alternatives to supervised exercise, allowing a bit more of the desired independence. (1) McHenry back pain patients may benefit in the same way these back pain sufferers do. Spinal stenosis back pain patients would value walking more like that!
MORE FREQUENT SUPERVISED SESSIONS BENEFICIAL
A newer report states that supervised physical therapy for lumbar spinal stenosis patients gave significant short-term improvements in symptom severity, walking distance, pain, physical activity and function compared with unsupervised. (2) A follow-up study compared a more specialized schedule of supervised physical therapy visits – two times a week and one time weekly - to home exercise. It states specifically that 6 weeks of supervised physical therapy twice a week for lumbar spinal stenosis patients allowed significant short term improvements in the severity of symptoms, physical function, back and leg pain and gait disturbance rather than one time a week PT visits and home exercise exclusively. (3) Our McHenry back pain patients would embrace all these improvements, undoubtedly!
EXERCISE AS PART OF AN OVERALL BACK PAIN RELIEF TREATMENT PLAN
Improvement is the goal for back pain management. Independence only takes you so far when your back is hurting. There is always a tipping point when the pain just can’t be put up with any more! Then a trip to the doctor is arranged. Many articles are written about how the doctor seen first often sets the course for subsequent care. (That was the topic of another blog!) Regarding exercise and physical therapy for back pain, though, these are conservative management forms that are often too infrequently used while opioid prescriptions are most ordinarly in the year before elective lumbar spine surgery: 84.4% opioid prescription and 14.6% minimum of 6 exercise therapy sessions. (4) OrthoIllinois Chiropractic is honored to partner with you for back pain relief. Your McHenry chiropractor is a well-trained McHenry back pain specialist whose treatment plan includes the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management and exercise.
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Schedule your McHenry chiropractic visit with OrthoIllinois Chiropractic today. Together, we will set up a thorough treatment plan for you that will permit a nice balance of independence and supervision for best McHenry back pain relief.
