February 2024 Healthy News from OrthoIllinois Chiropractic Heart and Spine Benefit from Exercise and Sacroiliac Pain Benefits from Treatment
CHIROPRACTIC HELP FOR SACROILIAC PAIN
The great sacroiliac joint debate: does it cause pain or not? We won’t get deep into that, but our McHenry back and leg pain sufferers may have pain in the sacroiliac joint. Some medical approaches today fuse the sacroiliac joints, inject them, etc. (1,2,3) In the conservative world, a review of how manual therapy may decrease and/or alleviate sacroiliac joint pain revealed that manual therapy – though just which manual therapy technique is superior was not described in all the studies they read – statistically significantly improved disability due to sacroiliac joint dysfunction syndrome. (4) There is always room for additional research! Another study juxtaposed the effect of manual therapy, exercise, and a combination of those two on sacroiliac pain dysfunction. All three groups were shown to have had a significant reduction in sacroiliac-associated pain. The researchers stated in their conclusion that manual therapy was effective in the long term for sacroiliac joint pain reduction and that adding specific exercise to the sacroiliac joint manipulation treatment elevated the effectiveness. (5) If we discover through our examination that sacroiliac pain is of consequence in your back pain condition, let’s ponder McHenry chiropractic non-surgical manual therapy and [possibly even|maybe]70] a little exercise to address it!
Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Michael McMurray on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson about use of The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management that includes exercise.
McHenry CHIROPRACTIC TIP OF THE MONTH: EXERCISE - GOOD FOR HEART…AND LOW BACK MUSCLE
Exercise is praised for its benefit for heart health, benefit which emerges after a few weeks or month of exercise. Researchers are discussing that even single or short-term exercise sessions offer benefit! They tested this and discovered that short-term exercise-induced protection provided immediate cardiac protection (like reducing the magnitude of cardiac/vascular damage due to long-term ischemia) cheaply and easily. (6) We know that our exercise-adverse McHenry chiropractic patients will like this! Just one exercise session may offer benefit. That’s the first step! And more bonuses of exercise for low back pain sufferers are reported. A rehab exercise program for normal and overweight patients showed improvement in total cholesterol and low-density lipoprotein as well as improvement in cardiovascular risk and lumbar muscle. (7) Time to add exercise?
In this month of hearts (Happy belated Valentine’s Day), take care of your heart and spine! OrthoIllinois Chiropractic is pleased to be your McHenry chiropractic partner in this effort. See you soon!