Latest News in Gentle Vancouver Exercise for Chronic Low Back Pain Relief
Chronic low back pain (CLBP) slows life down for its sufferers. Vancouver chronic low back pain sufferers look forward to having their lives back. Vancouver Disc Centers has a chiropractic treatment plan with options that do exactly that. The treatment plan often involves chiropractic spinal manipulation like Cox® Technic together with gentle exercise and nutrition. Some recent insights about effective exercise interventions are presented here for our Vancouver back pain patients’ consideration as it is up to you to select 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 came across 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 to reduce pain and improve activity 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. But it had equal effects on pain and disability as other exercise types or physical therapy. (2) Most everyone can walk. Some like physical therapy exercise. Most can do yoga if they want. Vancouver Disc Centers understands that not every exercise option may be our Vancouver back pain sufferer’s “thing”! Options are key to participation...and Vancouver Disc Centers has them!
MOTOR CONTROL EXERCISES
One group of researchers wrote that present evidence does not propose that any single type of exercise is better than any other for back pain relief. That is interesting! They did report that exercise is modestly effective treatment for CLBP, a substantial health and socioeconomic issue (cost, disability, missed work). The most common type 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) Vancouver Disc Centers talks with each Vancouver back pain sufferer to find out what exercise will work and will be done. That’s the key!
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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Benjamin Fonke on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he illustrates the advantage of exercise integration into The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.
Make your Vancouver chiropractic appointment now. When CLBP has slowed your life down, Vancouver Disc Centers’s chiropractic treatment plan with Cox® Technic and exercise that you will do may well restore your pace of life.
