Exercise is effective and helpful. It goes hand-in-hand with chiropractic care of spine pain conditions of all sorts. Patients get to be a part of their own care and healing when they do their exercises. Manahawkin Chiropractic Center knows our Manahawkin 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. Manahawkin Chiropractic Center doesn’t consider this helpful at all! 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! Muscle strengthening activity performed just two days a week lowers the odds of low back pain. (And this article, as a side note, suggests that smoking is also an influential factor in the equation of whether you get back pain or not. It is better not to smoke.) (2) Manahawkin Chiropractic Center presents simple exercises you can do in a short amount of time from the comfort of your own home if you like! You will see just how big an impact these exercises will make on your healing.
Chronic nonspecific low back pain sufferers gain from exercises like the lumbopelvic core stabilization exercises by positively influencing the pain perception by increasing your pain threshold and reducing your pain intensity. (3) Such exercises aren’t tough; they’re just effective! Manahawkin Chiropractic Center will share them with you so you can experience the best possible back pain relief. Manahawkin Chiropractic Center is with you, our Manahawkin back pain patient, during your healing process 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 recommended over many other approaches. (4) Cox Technic, an evidence based system of spine care, is spinal manipulation that Manahawkin Chiropractic Center chooses to use.
The addition of back school to the chiropractic treatment plan enhances 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) Manahawkin Chiropractic Center strives to educate our back pain patients as to how and why their backs hurt and how to preclude or at least minimize 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 stated 95% satisfaction with taking time to attend, and 100% said it was worth the doctor’s time to share the material. (6) Manahawkin chiropractic patients at Manahawkin Chiropractic Center are some of the wisest and knowledgeable spine-informed people around!
Schedule a Manahawkin chiropractic appointment today. It’s the first step toward back pain relief and its prevention. You can expect much at your first visit! Your chiropractic appointment will give you a firm grasp of what caused your pain and how you are able to contribute to its not bothering you much in the future with exercise.
