Exercise is good and beneficial. It goes hand-in-hand with chiropractic care of spine pain conditions of all sorts. Exercise also allows the patient to take part in their healing. Aurora Chiropractic Center incorporates exercise into the chiropractic treatment plan for all our Juneau patients to get them back to enjoying the quality of life they want.
Lax muscles reduce motion in low back pain patients. Aurora Chiropractic Center knows this isn’t good for our Juneau back pain patients! What makes these muscles weak? Fat. With back pain comes more fat infiltration into the back muscles, muscles like the lumbar multifidus muscles which greatly influence the range of motion in lumbar spine. Fattier multifidi, less lumbar flexion. (1)
Researchers find that there is big payoff for doing a little exercise! Patients who did just 2 days of muscle strengthening a week reduced their risk for low back pain. (And this article, as a side note, shares that smoking is also an influential factor in the equation of whether you get back pain or not. It’s best not to smoke.) (2) Aurora Chiropractic Center presents simple exercises you can do in a short amount of time from the comfort of your own bedroom if you like! You will see just how big an impact these exercises will make on your healing.
Chronic nonspecific low back pain sufferers benefit from exercises like the lumbopelvic core stabilization exercises by positively affecting the pain perception by increasing your pain threshold and reducing your pain intensity. (3) These exercises are not difficult, but they do work. Aurora Chiropractic Center will share them with you so you can feel the most possible back pain relief. Aurora Chiropractic Center is with you, our Juneau back pain patient, throughout your whole course of healing with as much support as you need.
Back school is an extra such support. Back school and manipulation/mobilization are standards of care for managing chronic nonspecific low back pain. These two approaches are suggested over many other approaches. (4) Cox Technic, an evidence based system of spine care, is spinal manipulation that Aurora Chiropractic Center chooses to use.
Adding back school to the chiropractic treatment plan enriches the good outcomes of back pain rehabilitation. How? Back school fosters self-management, gives control back to the patient to take care of him/herself. (5) Aurora Chiropractic Center attempts to educate our back pain patients as to how and why their backs hurt and how to preclude or at least minimize future occurrences. A survey of patients who attended a back school in a chiropractor’s office showed 95% satisfaction with having gone to the course and 100% support of the doctor’s presenting it. (6) Juneau chiropractic patients at Aurora Chiropractic Center are some of the most spine-smart people around!
Schedule a Juneau chiropractic appointment today. You’ll be well on your way to back pain relief. You can expect much at your first visit! Your chiropractic appointment will give you a clear understanding of what caused your pain and how you might avoid its annoyance in the future with exercise.
