Back pain - nonspecific or chronic or subacute – can be
helped with exercise. Our New Roads back pain patients
know from day 1 that exercise
is within their ability. We demonstrate
how to do easy, effective ones that will allow you some control over your situation.
New Roads Chiropractic Center is your New Roads exercise coach as well as your
spinal manipulation
chiropractor: the best of both worlds!
EXERCISE EFFICACY FOR LOW BACK PAIN
Low back pain patients get results with
therapeutic exercise in strengthening trunk muscles and enhancing
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 proved
better than stabilization exercises regarding proprioception,
balance, muscle (transverse abdoiminis, lumbar multifidus) thickness, decreasing
patients’ fear of movement, and functional disability. (1) Another study stated
core stabilization exercise to decrease pain, enhance
function, and boost core strength in nonspecific low back pain
patients. (2) Spine stabilization exercises and flexion exercises done24
daily equally benefited multifidus muscle
thickness in patients with chronic low back pain and spondylolisthesis. (3) Advice: Pick
one that you like to do (after we discuss it!)! Your back pain will appreciate
it.
EXERCISE FOR NON-SPECIFIC LOW BACK PAIN
Despite a diagnosis of non-specific low
back pain being frustrating (We all want to know what causes our pain!), exercise offers hope of its
management. A recent study found that exercise
training in-person and via multimedia/video were effective in
training back pain patients to properly 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) New Roads
back pain patients desiring some pain relief are encouraged
to do exercises as part of their
overall chiropractic treatment plan.
EXERCISE WITH SPINAL MANIPULATION
Combining efforts proposes even
more hope for back pain patients regardless of 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) found relief and recovery.
(6) In caring for back pain in patients who have already had
back surgery (laminectomy, fusion, discectomy) like the patient described
above 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 experienced persistent back pain after spine surgery. (7) New Roads Chiropractic Center carefully
examines and determines the gentlest treatment technique for
you.
CONTACT New Roads Chiropractic Center
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 overwhelming as well as the
benefit of the gentle care via The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain
Management that alleviates back pain.
Schedule your New Roads chiropractic
appointment now. Whatever the back pain source
or condition, bring it to New Roads Chiropractic Center. We will find a way
forward together!