Glute Strengthening Plus Chiropractic Eases Back Pain
Patient to the chiropractor: “Treat me so I don’t hurt.”
Chiropractor: “Be sure to do your exercises, so you won’t hurt.”
Chiropractors like your Juneau chiropractor at Aurora Chiropractic Center ponder how to get back pain patients to do suggested exercises. In any case, these exercises help back pain sufferers get stronger as well as decrease and prevent back pain! The back muscles and gluteus muscles and hamstrings get greater. Patients speculate why the chiropractor suggests exercises when all they wanted was for the chiropractor to resolve the back pain problem. What a quandary! Both the Juneau chiropractor and Juneau chiropractic patient have the same goal - pain relief – but their beliefs, experiences and expectations vary. (1) That is how it is. Research shows this. Clinical experience shows this. When patients recognize this and their chiropractors recognize this, everyone then does his/her part to relieve Juneau back pain, prevent future pain, and strengthen muscle. Let’s do that!
EXERCISE GUIDELINES TO LESSEN AND PREVENT BACK PAIN AND NECK PAIN
Guidelines for how to manage back pain and neck pain are published. Exercise is amid the recommendations for the non-invasive pharmacological and non-pharmacological therapies to treat acute and chronic low back pain and neck pain both without serious pathology and with radiculopathy. Spinal manipulation and manual therapy are also listed in these guidelines by the Global Spine Care Initiative. (2) Aurora Chiropractic Center carefully considers these in caring for Juneau back pain.
BACK PAIN BENEFITS FROM STRONG GLUTEAL MUSCLES
Patients with low back pain are more apt to be less active. Pain influences that decision. Low back pain patients fear that activity may set off pain, resulting in weakened muscles like the gluteus maximus. Prolonged immobilization or sedentariness prevents use of these muscles. In low back pain patients, a weak gluteus maximus is a common finding. Researchers report that the gluteus maximus cross-sectional area is reduced in low back pain sufferers, especially for women. (3) For Juneau chiropractic back pain patients dealing with unrelenting lumbopelvic pain and test positive for sacroiliac joint dysfunction, doing gluteus maximus strengthening exercises is advantageous. Patients who did exercise found a decrease in pain and an improvement in gluteus maximum strength and function. (4) Doing both - exercise to strengthening the gluteus maximus muscles and lumbar segmental stabilization exercise – reduced low back pain disability significantly more and increased lumbar spine muscle strength and balance better than just lumbar segmental stabilization exercise alone. (5) To stimulate the gluteus maximus muscles, erector spinae and hamstrings more intentionally during exercise, researchers developed a unique laser pointer system that permitted the exercise participants to visualize their muscle usage. This improved their form. (6) Let your Juneau chiropractor be your laser pointer! Consider using the proposed tips for how to exercise properly.
CONTACT Aurora Chiropractic Center
Schedule your Juneau chiropractic appointment to arrange a treatment plan that includes your Juneau chiropractor treating and your exercising to strengthen muscles. When the Juneau chiropractor and the Juneau chiropractic patient both “get” each other, Juneau back pain is history!
