Back pain - nonspecific or chronic or subacute – can benefit from exercise. Our San Jose back pain patients
realize from day 1 that exercise
is within their ability. We share
how to do easy, effective ones that will allow you some control over your condition.
Chiropractic Solutions is your San Jose exercise coach as well as your
spinal manipulation
chiropractor: the best of both worlds!
EXERCISE EFFICACY FOR LOW BACK PAIN
Low back pain patients get results with
therapeutic exercise in strengthening trunk muscles and enhancing
spine stability. There are many exercise options obtainable
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 regarding proprioception,
balance, muscle (transverse abdoiminis, lumbar multifidus) thickness, reducing
patients’ fear of movement, and functional disability. (1) Another study stated
core stabilization exercise to lessen pain, enhance
function, and boost core strength in nonspecific low back pain
patients. (2) Spine stabilization exercises and flexion exercises performed24
daily equally helped multifidus muscle
thickness in patients with chronic low back pain and spondylolisthesis. (3) Advice: Pick
one that you like to do (after we discuss it!)! Your back pain will appreciate
it.
EXERCISE FOR NON-SPECIFIC LOW BACK PAIN
Regardless of a diagnosis of non-specific low
back pain being frustrating (We all want to understand
what lies below our pain!), exercise offers hope of its
management. A new study reported that exercise
training in-person and via multimedia/video were effective in
training back pain patients to correctly 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) San Jose
back pain patients seeking some pain relief are urged
to exercise as part of an
overall chiropractic treatment plan.
EXERCISE WITH SPINAL MANIPULATION
Combining efforts proposes even
more hope for back pain patients regardless of diagnosis.
One case report of a 24-year-old patient with a recurrent disc herniation and
pain after back surgery laminectomy shared that flexion
distraction spinal manipulation along with rehabilitative exercise
(in this case: bird dog and core stabilization) found relief and recovery.
(6) In caring for back pain in patients who have already had
back surgery (laminectomy, fusion, discectomy) like the above patient did, clinicians receiving spinal
manipulation are inclined to using gentler non-manual-thrust
spinal manipulation while chiropractors leaned toward using
manual thrust. Spinal manipulation was used less than 12 months after back surgery in 66% of cases in this study. Treating healthcare
providers used spinal manipulation with 85% of
patients who experienced persistent back pain after spine surgery. (7) Chiropractic Solutions thoroughly
examines and determines the gentlest treatment technique for
you.
CONTACT Chiropractic Solutions
Listen to this PODCAST
with Dr. Kurt Olding on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson
as he shares 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.
Make your San Jose chiropractic
appointment soon. Whatever the back pain source
or condition, bring it to Chiropractic Solutions. We’ll find a way
forward together!