Exercise is good and beneficial. Exercise is integral to the chiropractic care plan for spine pain issues of types. Patients get to be a part of their own care and healing when they do their exercises. Vancouver Disc Centers incorporates exercise into the chiropractic treatment plan for all our Vancouver patients to get them back to enjoying the quality of life they want.
Lax muscles reduce motion in low back pain patients. Vancouver Disc Centers knows this isn’t good for our Vancouver 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)
One article shares that there is big payoff for doing a little exercise! 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 an influential factor in the equation of whether you get back pain or not. Recommendation: Don’t smoke!) (2) Vancouver Disc Centers recommends 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 benefit from exercises like the lumbopelvic core stabilization exercises by positively affecting the pain perception by increasing your pain threshold and dropping your pain intensity. (3) Such exercises aren’t tough; they’re just effective! Vancouver Disc Centers will share them with you so you can attain the most possible back pain relief. Vancouver Disc Centers is with you, our Vancouver back pain patient, during your whole course of healing with as much support as you need.
Back school is an extra 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 approaches. (4) Cox Technic, an evidence based system of spine care, is spinal manipulation that Vancouver Disc Centers chooses to use.
The chiropractic treatment plan is enriched when back school is included in the overall back pain rehabilitation plan. How? Back school fosters self-management, gives control back to the patient to help him/herself. (5) Vancouver Disc Centers attempts to educate our back pain patients as to how and why their backs hurt and how to prevent 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 going to the class, and 100% said it was worth the doctor’s time to share the material. (6) Vancouver chiropractic patients at Vancouver Disc Centers are some of the most spine-smart people around!
Schedule a Vancouver chiropractic appointment today. It is the natural next step in your journey toward 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 might avoid its aggravation in the future with exercise.
