July 12, 2016

Back pain slows life. Back pain disables. Back pain eases with exercise and care. 50% relief is a good outcome in the world of back pain relief be it with exercise or surgery or non-surgical care like chiropractic. In the non-surgical realm, combining non-surgical, chiropractic care at Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers with Cox Technic and exercise even raises the odds for even more back pain relief. In this article, Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers is sharing how exercise can really be of value to our Baton Rouge chiropractic patients. Exercise is something our Baton Rouge back pain patients can control; you can choose to exercise or not. Choosing to exercise just boosts your chance of short term and long term relief.

One research team states in their report that “The most effective intervention [for back pain] is exercise, with higher benefits in terms of pain and function.” (1) That's a bold statement though hopeful for Baton Rouge back pain sufferers. Experience of your Baton Rouge chiropractor allows confidence that back pain relief is possible with a multi-prong approach to care. Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers offers chiropractic care’s multi-prong approach of spinal manipulation,exercise, nutrition, physiological therapeutics and more. Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers helps Baton Rouge back pain sufferers regain some control over their back pain by exercising.

Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers will hear our Baton Rouge patients say “Exercise takes so much time.” Some exercises take very little time. Some exercises have multiple benefits. Learn those, and take less time to exercise. Take for example running in place – any time, any place. It strengthens the abdominal muscles which support the spine. (2) The erector spinae muscles in the spine are important in supporting the spine, too. Ironically, though, the specific-targeting back extension exercises don’t activate the upper lumbar erector spinae or the lumbosacral erector spinae as well as simple running. (3) Baton Rouge back pain patients are in luck then. A little running is effective in multiple ways.

Now, Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers knows that chronic non-specific low back pain influences trunk and lower limb movement (like the knee joint). (4) Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers therefore reminds our Baton Rouge low back pain patients to be careful when walking and/or running but to keep moving.

If you’re still a skeptical Baton Rouge back pain sufferer about exercise, consider that exercise improves pain and function and relieves depression and anxiety related to back pain. (1) Depression is a real issue when you have back pain. Sometimes, pain keeps you, our Baton Rouge back pain patient, from being you and doing what you normally do due to pain or due to fear of pain. Researchers report that exercise done properly helps heal the body and ease the mind!

One last note, especially if you are not a big exercise fan, is that even elite athletes like marathon runners get back pain. As a matter of fact, half of runners in a half marathon reported back pain. These same runners, though, report that running the marathon despite their pain improved their pain (49%) rather than worsened it (27%). (5) Isn’t that motivating?

Contact Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers. Your Baton Rouge chiropractor isn’t going to insist that you become a marathon runner. Promise! But Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers will be encouraged to exercise: just walk or run (in place or a distance). Whatever exercise is recommended for you will be for you and no one else! Exercise is one of the prongs in Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers’s Baton Rouge chiropractic care treatment plan for you.