Chronic low back pain (CLBP) negatively impacts life for its sufferers. Burlington and Hamilton chronic low back pain
sufferers look forward to getting their lives back. Spinal Care Clinic
follows a chiropractic treatment plan with options that do just
that. The treatment plan often includes chiropractic
spinal manipulation like Cox® Technic along with gentle
exercise and nutrition. A couple new
insights about effective exercise interventions are presented here
for our Burlington and Hamilton back pain patients’ consideration as it’s
for you to decide to choose what exercise suits 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 slightly superior for intermediate
term pain relief and activity limitation improvement while yoga was more beneficial
for pain and activity limitation improvement
in the short term. Combining both walking and yoga
was proposed as a beneficial combination
for CLBP 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 equal
effects on pain and disability as other exercise modes or physical therapy.
(2) Most everyone can walk. Some like physical
therapy exercise. Most can perform yoga if they so desire.
Spinal Care Clinic knows not every exercise option may be
our Burlington and Hamilton back pain sufferer’s “thing”! Options
are essential to participation...and Spinal Care Clinic has them!
MOTOR CONTROL EXERCISES
One group of researchers wrote that present
evidence does not suggest that any one
type of exercise is better than any other for back
pain relief. That’s interesting! They did state that
exercise is modestly effective treatment for chronic low back pain,
a substantial 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. Reportedly not
superior to other types of exercise, motor control exercise should
be an alternative for chronic low back pain patients among
other types of exercise. The researchers indicated
that the choice should be up to the patient and his/her doctor/therapist as to what
works. (3) Spinal Care Clinic chats with each Burlington and Hamilton back
pain sufferer to find out what exercise will work and will be
performed. That is the most important factor!
CONTACT Spinal Care Clinic
Listen to this PODCAST
with Dr. Benjamin Fonke on The
Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he
describes the advantage of exercise integration into The Cox® Technic System of Spinal
Pain Management.
Set up your Burlington and Hamilton
chiropractic appointment soon. When CLBP has slowed your life down, Spinal Care Clinic’s
chiropractic treatment plan with Cox® Technic and exercise that you will
do can get your life’s pace back to
speed.
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