Latest News in Gentle Manahawkin Exercise for Chronic Low Back Pain Relief
Chronic low back pain (CLBP) negatively impacts life for its sufferers. Manahawkin chronic low back pain sufferers want their lives back. Manahawkin Chiropractic Center offers a chiropractic treatment plan with options that do exactly that. The treatment plan often involves chiropractic spinal manipulation like Cox® Technic along with gentle exercise and nutrition. Some recent insights about effective exercise interventions are shared here for our Manahawkin back pain patients’ consideration as it is for you to decide to select what exercise works for you!
WALKING AND MIND-BODY THERAPIES: Gentle Exercise Options
Walking works, so do mind-body therapies like yoga. An analysis of 31 randomized control trials of 3193 participants, walking was found to be as effective as control interventions for short term relief of chronic low back pain and somewhat superior for intermediate term pain relief and activity limitation improvement while yoga was more effective for pain and activity limitation improvement in the short term. Combining both walking and yoga was proposed as a beneficial combination for chronic low back pain patients. (1) In an analysis of 18 randomized controlled trials, yoga reportedly decreased pain in the short to intermediate term and to improve functional disability from short to long term compared to non-exercise, usual care, and education. However it had the same effects on pain and disability as other exercise types or physical therapy. (2) Most everyone can walk. Some enjoy physical therapy exercise. Most can perform yoga if they want. Manahawkin Chiropractic Center understands that not every exercise option may be our Manahawkin back pain sufferer’s “thing”! Options are key to participation...and Manahawkin Chiropractic Center has them!
MOTOR CONTROL EXERCISES
One group of researchers wrote that present evidence doesn’t suggest that any one form of exercise is superior to any other for back pain relief. That is interesting! They did state that exercise is modestly effective treatment for CLBP, a major health and socioeconomic issue (cost, disability, missed work). The most common form of exercise for back pain relief was described as being motor control exercise which works on the deep muscles and their coordination. Supposedly not superior to other forms of exercise, motor control exercise should be an option for chronic low back pain patients among other types of exercise. The researchers suggested that the choice should be made by the patient in collaboration with his/her doctor/therapist. (3) Manahawkin Chiropractic Center chats with each Manahawkin back pain sufferer to learn about what exercise will work and will be done. That is the key!
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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Benjamin Fonke on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he describes the value of exercise incorporation into The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.
Set up your Manahawkin chiropractic appointment today. When chronic low back pain has slowed life down for you, Manahawkin Chiropractic Center’s chiropractic treatment plan with Cox® Technic and exercise that you will do can get your life’s pace back to speed.
