Latest News in Gentle Minster Exercise for Chronic Low Back Pain Relief
Chronic low back pain (CLBP) negatively impacts life for its sufferers. Minster chronic low back pain sufferers look forward to getting their lives back. Minster Chiropractic Center offers a chiropractic treatment plan with options that do exactly that. The treatment plan often incorporates chiropractic spinal manipulation like Cox® Technic together with gentle exercise and nutrition. Some recent insights about effective exercise interventions are presented here for our Minster back pain patients’ consideration as it is for you to decide to select what exercise works for you!
WALKING AND MIND-BODY THERAPIES: Gentle Exercise Options
Walking works, so do mind-body therapies like yoga. An analysis of 31 randomized control trials of 3193 participants, walking was found to be as effective as control interventions for short term relief of chronic low back pain and slightly superior for intermediate term pain relief and activity limitation improvement while yoga was more effective for pain and activity limitation improvement in the short term. Combining both walking and yoga was proposed as a valuable combination for chronic low back pain patients. (1) In an analysis of 18 randomized controlled trials, yoga was said to decrease pain in the short to intermediate term and to improve functional disability from short to long term compared to non-exercise, usual care, and education. However it had the same effects on pain and disability as other exercise modes or physical therapy. (2) Most everyone can take a stroll. Some like physical therapy exercise. Most can perform yoga if they so desire. Minster Chiropractic Center knows not every exercise option may be our Minster back pain sufferer’s “thing”! Options are key to participation...and Minster Chiropractic Center has them!
MOTOR CONTROL EXERCISES
One group of researchers wrote that current evidence does not propose that any one type of exercise is superior to any other for back pain relief. That is interesting! They did state that exercise is modestly effective treatment for chronic low back pain, a major health and socioeconomic issue (cost, disability, missed work). The most common type of exercise for back pain relief was described as being motor control exercise working on the deep muscles and their coordination. Reportedly not superior to other types of exercise, motor control exercise should be an option for chronic low back pain patients among other kinds of exercise. The researchers indicated that the choice should be up to the patient and his/her doctor/therapist as to what works. (3) Minster Chiropractic Center chats with each Minster back pain sufferer to learn about what exercise will work and will be performed. That’s the most important factor!
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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Benjamin Fonke on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he describes the value of exercise incorporation into The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.
Set up your Minster chiropractic appointment now. When CLBP has slowed your life down, Minster Chiropractic Center’s chiropractic treatment plan with Cox® Technic and exercise that you will do can get your life’s pace back to speed.
