Baton Rouge Back Pain Relief Helped by Exercise
Back pain - nonspecific or chronic or subacute – can benefit from exercise. Our Baton Rouge back pain patients know from day 1 that they can exercise safely and gently. We share how to do easy, effective ones that will help you feel some control over your pain. Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers is your Baton Rouge exercise coach as well as your chiropractor who delivers spinal manipulation : the best of both realms!
EXERCISE EFFICACY FOR LOW BACK PAIN
Low back pain patients get results with therapeutic exercise in strengthening trunk muscles and enhancing spine stability. There is a variety of exercise options available from core stabilization and strengthening to motor control exercises and muscle strengthening. In a study of subacute nonspecific low back pain sufferers, core stabilization exercises showed that they were better than stabilization exercises in terms of proprioception, balance, muscle (transverse abdoiminis, lumbar multifidus) thickness, decreasing patients’ fear of movement, and functional disability. (1) Another study reported core stabilization exercise to decrease pain, improve function, and increase core strength in nonspecific low back pain patients. (2) Spine stabilization exercises and flexion exercises performed24 daily equally increased multifidus muscle thickness in patients with chronic low back pain and spondylolisthesis . (3) Advice: Pick one that you are most likely to do (after we discuss it!)! Your back pain will thank you.
EXERCISE FOR NON-SPECIFIC LOW BACK PAIN
Regardless of a diagnosis of non-specific low back pain that may frustrate you (We all want to understand what lies below our pain!), exercise offers hope of its management. A new study found that exercise training in-person and via multimedia/video were effective in training back pain patients to properly perform 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) Baton Rouge back pain patients desiring some pain relief are encouraged to exercise as part of an overall chiropractic treatment plan.
EXERCISE WITH SPINAL MANIPULATION
Combining efforts proposes even more hope for back pain patients despite the diagnosis. One case report of a 24-year-old patient with a recurrent disc herniation and pain after back surgery laminectomy described that flexion distraction spinal manipulation along with rehabilitative exercise (in this case: bird dog and core stabilization) found relief and improvement. (6) In caring for back pain in patients who have undergone 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 used 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) Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers carefully examines and decides the gentlest treatment technique for you.
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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Kurt Olding on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he describes how the many spine care options may be a bit much to find your way through as well as the benefit of the gentle care via The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management that eases back pain.
Schedule your Baton Rouge chiropractic appointment today. No matter the back pain source or condition, bring it to Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers. [{We will|We’ll]61] find a path forward together!
