San Jose Chiropractic Exercise Recommendation Benefits for Sleep and Back Pain
Exercise. San Jose back pain sufferers get the recommendation to exercise often. Chiropractic Solutions recommends it, too. Exercise keeps showing its benefit for relief of low back pain and its prevention…plus a new report reveals benefit for better sleep quality!
EXERCISE FOR RELIEF OF THE BURDEN OF LOW BACK PAIN
Low back pain is a problem for the low back pain sufferer, the family, the community, and the healthcare system. Healthcare providers and researchers study proposed long-term methods to decrease this problem for whose sufferers’ disability continues. Exercise leads the list of non-invasive, non-drug general recommendations along with manual therapy and massage. (1) Chiropractic Solutions is the San Jose back pain specialty clinic to which many back pain sufferers see.
BACK PAIN SPECIALIST’S PLAN FOR BACK PAIN RELIEF ADDS EXERCISE
Numerous chronic back pain sufferers take themselves to their primary care practitioners first. It’s a pretty standard routing. Primary care recommendations for chronic low back pain care typically involve exercise, oral prescriptions of NSAIDs and SNRI’s like duloxetine. In research, there is a curious statistic called “number to treat” which implies the number of patients with a certain condition who need to go through the treatment recommendation for 1 of them to get benefit. In this recent study, the number to treat for 1 chronic low back pain patient to report benefit from exercise was 7, from NSAIDs 6, and SNRIs 10. Of these 3 options, exercise was the only intervention that demonstrated sustained chronic low back pain relief after the intervention ended and up to 48 weeks later. (2) Exercise is a valuable, self-management, non-drug alternative for chronic low back pain patients. Chiropractic Solutions always incorporates it in the San Jose chiropractic treatment plan. Exercise puts some control of chronic low back pain in our San Jose chiropractic patients’ hands.
WHAT ABOUT SLEEP AND EXERCISE?
Another advantageous patient-controlled option is sleep-and-exercise. Lack of sleep – time and/or quality – is a problem for so many San Jose chiropractic patients. Chiropractic Solutions often hears our patients bring up sleep difficulties. Sleep is renewing for the body and the mind. Exercise is manytimes prescribed to address sleep and mood issues. An interesting study about the relationship between sleep and exercise highlights some interesting findings in young men and women. There are differences for each! Men who exercised more frequently reported falling asleep quicker, less daytime trouble, and less depressive mood. Women who exercised more frequently went to bed earlier, experienced better sleep quality, and reported more benefit from sleep, less depressive mood, and less anger. (3) Regular exercise is important for so many issues!
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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Pamela Aaron on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as she shares a case of a young female patient with low back pain and her treatment with the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management plus strengthening exercise that helped.
Make your San Jose chiropractic appointment now. “Exercise.” It’s a recommendation Chiropractic Solutions will keep sharing for back pain relief and prevention as well as improved sleep.
