Minster Back Pain Relief Helped by Exercise

Back pain - nonspecific or chronic or subacute – can benefit from exercise. Our Minster back pain patients realize from day 1 that they can exercise safely and gently. We share how to do simple, helpful ones that will help you feel some control over your pain. Minster Chiropractic Center is your Minster exercise coach as well as your chiropractor who delivers spinal manipulation: the best of both realms!

EXERCISE EFFICACY FOR LOW BACK PAIN

Low back pain patients get results with therapeutic exercise in strengthening trunk muscles and increasing spine stability. There are many exercise options available from core stabilization and strengthening to motor control exercises and muscle strengthening. In one study of subacute nonspecific low back pain sufferers, core stabilization exercises showed that they were better than stabilization exercises in terms of proprioception, balance, muscle (transverse abdoiminis, lumbar multifidus) thickness, reducing patients’ fear of movement, and functional disability. (1) Another study stated core stabilization exercise to lessen pain, improve function, and boost core strength in nonspecific low back pain patients. (2) Spine stabilization exercises and flexion exercises performed24 daily both increased multifidus muscle thickness in patients with chronic low back pain and spondylolisthesis. (3) Advice: Choose one that you like to do (after we discuss it!)! Your back pain will thank you.

EXERCISE FOR NON-SPECIFIC LOW BACK PAIN

Regardless of a diagnosis of non-specific low back pain being frustrating (We all want to understand what lies below our pain!), exercise offers hope of its management. A recent study reported that exercise training in-person and via multimedia/video were effective in training back pain patients to correctly do the more complex motor control exercises. (4) Core exercises with the addition of hip muscle strengthening effectively enhanced physical activity and function for nonspecific low back pain patients. (5) Minster back pain patients desiring some pain relief are urged to exercise as part of their overall chiropractic treatment plan.

EXERCISE WITH SPINAL MANIPULATION

Combining efforts offers additional hope for back pain patients despite the diagnosis. One case report of a 24-year-old patient with a recurrent disc herniation and pain after back surgery laminectomy shared that flexion distraction spinal manipulation along with rehab exercise (in this case: bird dog and core stabilization) got relief and improvement. (6) In caring for back pain in patients who have undergone back surgery (laminectomy, fusion, discectomy) like the above patient did, clinicians using spinal manipulation tend toward using gentler non-manual-thrust spinal manipulation while chiropractors tended to use manual thrust. Spinal manipulation was applied less than 12 months after back surgery in 66% of cases in this study. Treating healthcare providers utilized spinal manipulation with 85% of patients who had persistent back pain after spine surgery(7) Minster Chiropractic Center carefully examines and determines the gentlest treatment technique for you.

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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Kurt Olding on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he shares how the many spine care choices may be a bit much to find your way through as well as the benefit of the gentle care via The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management that relieves back pain.

Make your Minster chiropractic appointment soon. Whatever the back pain source or condition, bring it to Minster Chiropractic Center. We will find a way forward together!

 
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