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. Johnson Chiropractic incorporates exercise into the chiropractic treatment plan for all our Richmond patients to get them back to enjoying the quality of life they want.
Lax muscles reduce motion in low back pain patients. Johnson Chiropractic knows this isn’t good for our Richmond back pain patients! 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 reduced the risk for low back pain. (And this article, as a side note, suggests that smoking is also a powerful factor in the equation of whether you get back pain or not. Recommendation: Don’t smoke!) (2) Johnson Chiropractic offers simple exercises you can do in just a few minutes from the comfort of your own bedroom if you like! They’ll make a big impact. You’ll see!
Chronic nonspecific low back pain sufferers benefit from exercises like the lumbopelvic core stabilization exercises by positively influencing the pain perception by improving your pain threshold and dropping your pain intensity. (3) These exercises are not difficult, but they do work. Johnson Chiropractic will who you how to do them so you can attain the best possible back pain relief. Johnson Chiropractic is with you, our Richmond back pain patient, during your healing process with as much support as you need.
Back school is another such support. Back school and manipulation/mobilization are standards of care for working with chronic nonspecific low back pain. These two approaches are recommended over many other types of care. (4) Cox Technic, an evidence based system of spine care, is spinal manipulation that Johnson Chiropractic chooses to use.
The chiropractic treatment plan is enriched when back school is added to the overall back pain rehabilitation plan. How? Back school nurtures self-management, gives control back to the patient to take care of him/herself. (5) Johnson Chiropractic tries to educate our back pain patients as to how and why their backs hurt and how to avoid or at least curtail future occurrences. A survey of patients who went to a back school in a chiropractor’s office showed 95% satisfaction with having gone to the course and 100% support of the doctor’s providing it. (6) Richmond chiropractic patients at Johnson Chiropractic are some of the most spine-smart people around!
Schedule a Richmond 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 clear understanding of what caused your pain and how you are able to contribute to its not upsetting you much in the future with exercise.
