San Jose Back Pain Relief Helped by Walking 90 Minutes Weekly

November 27, 2018

Just walk! It’s easy. It’s economical. It’s effective. Walking is a great way to get healthy and stay healthy. Walking is a great way to discover relief from chronic pain and back pain. Chiropractic Solutions's San Jose chiropractic back pain specialist often suggests walking as one of the first activities to try to San Jose back pain patients. Here is why…

WALK MORE. SIT LESS.

It may seem odd when Chiropractic Solutions inquires about your sitting habits when you visit Chiropractic Solutions for San Jose back pain treatment and relief, but it is not! It is well known and now even research documented that sitting for lengthier periods of time is a risk factor for low back pain. Recent research reports more emphatically that extensive sitting and low physical activity increases low back pain risk even more. (1) Chiropractic Solutions’s curiosity about your sitting habits makes sense! Chiropractic Solutions’s recommendation to walk does, too.

San Jose WALKING BENEFITS

San Jose walking is advantageous for San Jose back pain relief as well as the back pain relieving San Jose chiropractic care at Chiropractic Solutions! Walking is helpful for chronic musculoskeletal pain sufferers as those with low back pain, fibromyalgia and osteoarthritis. Walking is a helpful type of exercise for chronic pain relief and is related to significant improvements in pain and function. (2) Exercise and physical activities like muscle strengthening and aerobic exercise have plenty of support for effectively dealing with low back pain. Weekly walking is gaining more and more favor to be included on this list of effective exercises. For over-50 year olds, weekly walking of 90 minutes a week lowers the risk of low back pain. Lengthier walking sessions are seemingly better. Regular walking for a longer time for more than 3 days a week is significantly associated with reduced low back pain risk. (3) Excitingly, a walking program is research-documented to have the lowest costs and the best chance of adherence by back pain patients. (4) Chiropractic Solutions knows that our San Jose chiropractic patients will appreciate that balance!

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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Amanda Harris on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson about how well Cox® Technic helped a spinal stenosis back pain patient return to walking and start enjoying the benefits of walking, again.

Schedule a San Jose chiropractic appointment today. Chiropractic Solutions gets that San Jose back pain sufferers want pain relief. The suggestion of “just walk” may be the right one for you! Walking is simple, inexpensive, and on your own schedule!

San Jose walking 3 days a week helps manage back pain, a great addition to San Jose chiropractic care at Chiropractic Solutions!