Exercise is effective and helpful. It goes hand-in-hand with chiropractic care of spine pain conditions of all sorts. Exercise also allows the patient to take control of their pain relief. Chiropractic Solutions knows our San Jose chiropractic patients just want to get back to doing what they want to do, what they used to do.
Weak back muscles don’t allow fluid spinal motion in low back pain patients. Chiropractic Solutions 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 doing a little exercise does a lot! Patients who did just 2 days of muscle strengthening a week lowered the risk for low back pain. (And this article, as a side note, shares that smoking is also an influential factor in the equation of whether you get back pain or not. Recommendation: Don’t smoke!) (2) Chiropractic Solutions 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 affecting the pain perception by improving your pain threshold and reducing your pain intensity. (3) Such exercises aren’t hard; they’re just effective! Chiropractic Solutions will who you how to do them so you can feel the best possible back pain relief. Chiropractic Solutions is with you, our San Jose back pain patient, during your healing process with as much support as you need.
Back school is an additional such support. Back school and manipulation/mobilization are standards of care for managing chronic nonspecific low back pain. These two approaches are suggested over many other types of care. (4) Cox Technic, an evidence based system of spine care, is spinal manipulation that Chiropractic Solutions chooses to use.
The chiropractic treatment plan is enriched when back school is added to the overall back pain rehabilitation plan. How? Back school fosters self-management, gives control back to the patient to help him/herself. (5) Chiropractic Solutions attempts to educate our back pain patients as to how and why their backs hurt and how to avoid 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 went to a back school at a chiropractor’s office. Back pain patients reported 95% satisfaction with taking time to attend, and 100% said it was worth the doctor’s time to present it. (6) San Jose chiropractic patients at Chiropractic Solutions are some of the most spine-smart people around!
Schedule a San Jose chiropractic appointment today. It is the natural next step in your journey to back pain relief. 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 might avoid its aggravation in the future with exercise.
