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 control of their pain relief. Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers knows our Baton Rouge chiropractic patients just want to get back to doing what they want to do, what they used to do.
Lax muscles reduce motion in low back pain patients. Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers doesn’t consider this helpful at all! Why do back pain patients have weaker muscles? 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)
One article shares 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 a powerful factor in your risk of getting back pain. It’s best not to smoke.) (2) Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers recommends simple exercises you can do in just a few minutes from the comfort of your own bedroom if you like! They’ll make a big impact. You’ll see!
Chronic nonspecific low back pain sufferers gain from exercises like the lumbopelvic core stabilization exercises by positively influencing the pain perception by improving your pain threshold and reducing your pain intensity. (3) Such exercises aren’t tough; they’re just effective! Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers will share them with you so you can attain the most possible back pain relief. Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers is with you, our Baton Rouge back pain patient, through your whole course of healing with as much support as you need.
Back school is another such support. Back school and manipulation/mobilization are standards of care for handling chronic nonspecific low back pain. These two approaches are suggested over many other approaches. (4) Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers uses spinal manipulation in the form of Cox Technic, a chiropractic evidence based system of spine care.
The chiropractic treatment plan is enriched when back school is included in the overall back pain rehabilitation plan. How? Back school nurtures self-management, gives control back to the patient to help him/herself. (5) Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers tries to educate our back pain patients as to how and why their backs hurt and how to preclude or at least curtail future occurrences. One study of just how well back school is received by back pain patients is a study of those who attended a back school at a chiropractor’s office. Back pain patients reported 95% satisfaction with going to the class, and 100% said it was worth the doctor’s time to present it. (6) Baton Rouge chiropractic patients at Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers are some of the most spine-smart people around!
Schedule a Baton Rouge chiropractic appointment today. It is the natural next step in your journey toward 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 are able to contribute to its not upsetting you much in the future with exercise.
