Richmond Chiropractic Exercise Plans for Post-Surgery Care
10,080 minutes are in a week. What do you do with all that time? Sleep, eat, talk, work, listen, shop, drive…exercise? Exercise doesn’t always appear in at number one on most people’s lists of favorite things to do with their time. It is recommended that all of us exercise at least 150 minutes a week. (6) That’s just
- 2 and a half hours a week.
- 5 sessions of 30 minutes a week.
- 10 sessions of 15 minutes a week.
It is not that much, but we need to schedule it into our busy lives, do we not? Even your Richmond chiropractor needs to do that! Time goes by so quickly for all of us, including time for your Richmond chiropractic physician at Johnson Chiropractic. Your Richmond chiropractic physician at Johnson Chiropractic encourages Richmond chiropractic patients to keep up their exercise routines even when their Richmond back pain is not so bad.
Exercise allows people to be happier, less depressed and sleep better. (1,2) Richmond chiropractic patients benefit like this, too! Hearts and minds are healthier when their owners exercise. (3,4) Johnson Chiropractic challenges you to get out and try a walk! See how much clearer you think and better you feel as your heart pumps more. Exercise reduce memory loss. (4) Exercise decreases depressive symptoms. (2) Blood pressure falls. (5) Life span may even be increased due to heart workouts with aerobic exercise. (3) Johnson Chiropractic sees lots of advantages from all of these!
Exercise is life-giving. Exercise is life-supporting. Exercise is all that for normal spine folks but even more significant for Richmond back pain sufferers especially for Richmond post-back surgery patients who still experience back pain. Post-surgical patients who exercise 150 minutes a week show a remarkable reduction in pain and reoperation rate reports a new study of post-surgery back pain patients. In this study the mean age was 57 years old. 80% of them had degenerative diagnoses. 63% had gone through a multilevel back surgery. Only 35% of them met the greater than 1400 kcal a week exercise expenditure and left them vulnerable to a second surgery (named a revision surgery). Only 26% of post back surgery patients met the more than 150 minutes a week of exercise opening them to the risk of degenerative diagnoses, subsequent spine surgery, and more postoperative back pain. (6) 150 minutes a week does not sound like much anymore, does it? Johnson Chiropractic knows our Richmond chiropractic patients can schedule 2.5 hours a week for their back’s sake. It's part of the whole Richmond treatment plan of chiropractic care.
Exercise in advance of surgery. Exercise after surgery. Exercise for life. Exercise for health. Schedule your Richmond chiropractic visit today. Johnson Chiropractic is ready to see just how easy it may be to figure out just for you, one your Richmond lifestyle can manage, one that you’ll be able to put time into your schedule to do.
