Minster Back Pain Relief Helped by Walking 90 Minutes Weekly

November 27, 2018

Just walk! It’s easy. It’s cheap. It’s effective. Walking is an amazing means to get healthy and remain healthy. Walking is a great way to discover relief from chronic pain and back pain. Minster Chiropractic Center's Minster chiropractic back pain specialist often suggests walking as one of the initial activities to try to Minster back pain patients. Here is why…

WALK MORE. SIT LESS.

It may seem odd when Minster Chiropractic Center asks about your sitting habits when you come in for Minster back pain treatment and relief, but it’s not! It’s well known and now even supported by research that sitting for longer periods of time is a risk factor for low back pain. The new research reports more emphatically that extensive sitting and low physical activity raises low back pain risk even more. (1) Minster Chiropractic Center’s curiosity about your sitting habits is logical! Minster Chiropractic Center’s recommendation to walk is, too.

Minster WALKING BENEFITS

Minster walking is beneficial for Minster back pain relief as well as the back pain relieving Minster chiropractic care at Minster Chiropractic Center! Walking is beneficial for chronic musculoskeletal pain sufferers as those with low back pain, fibromyalgia and osteoarthritis. Walking is an effective type of exercise for chronic pain relief and is related to significant improvements in pain and function. (2) Exercise and physical activities like muscle strengthening and aerobic exercise have plenty of support for effectively managing low back pain. Weekly walking is growing more and more approval to be added to this list of effective exercises. For over-50 year olds, weekly walking of 90 minutes a week decreases the risk of low back pain. Longer walking sessions are ostensibly preferred. Routine walking with longer duration for more than 3 days a week is significantly associated with reduced low back pain risk. (3) Excitingly, a walking program is research-documented to offer the lowest costs and the best chance of adherence by back pain patients. (4) Minster Chiropractic Center knows that our Minster chiropractic patients will like that balance!

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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Amanda Harris on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson about how well Cox® Technic assisted a spinal stenosis back pain patient return to walking and begin again to enjoy.

Schedule a Minster chiropractic appointment now. Minster Chiropractic Center understands that Minster back pain sufferers desire pain relief. The suggestion of “just walk” may be the right one for you! Walking is easy, cheap, and on your own schedule!

Minster walking 3 days a week helps control back pain, a great addition to Minster chiropractic care at Minster Chiropractic Center!