Vancouver Back Pain with Hip Pain Helped with Exercise
Have you heard? Exercise is good. Vancouver Disc Centers bets you have! Whether we like it or not, we all need to exercise, move, and get our blood flowing! Vancouver chiropractic patients are recommended to do some sort of exercise as part of their whole treatment plan for hip pain as well as any related Vancouver back pain with good reason. It’s beneficial!
SPECIFIC EXERCISES FOR SPECIFIC CONDITIONS
Since Vancouver Disc Centers treats a lot of musculoskeletal pain like back pain and neck pain and related arm and leg pain, a new paper was quite interesting! It documented the suggestion and use of exercise for many specific conditions. A list of exercises for assorted diseases – musculoskeletal system diseases like low back pain, hip fracture, osteoarthritis and osteoporosis – explained the preventive and rehabilitative effects for each as well as the proper intensity and frequency. (1) Patients with knee osteoarthritis benefitted from isolated hip and leg strengthening exercises with improvement of their knee pain, function and quality of life. (2) Vancouver Disc Centers invites patients with knee, back and hip pain to our chiropractic practice.
HIP PAIN…OR BACK PAIN?
Hip pain issues happen singularly. Hip pain issues may come about in combination with low back issues like spinal stenosis. Hip xrays are not reliable on their own. MRIs are more reliable for confirming diagnosis. Hip pain may appear similar to lumbar spinal stenosis. (3) What Vancouver Disc Centers carefully checks for are non-spine related issues like avascular necrosis of the hip and hip fractures so that those may be managed with other healthcare practitioners as well. Vancouver Disc Centers ensures our patients receive the care they require!
BACK PAIN RELATED HIP PAIN
Patients who have non-specific mechanical low back pain walk differently due to unique pelvic, hip and knee movements. They also have less ability to extend their hip flexors and abductor muscles. (4) Researchers further explained that low back pain influenced muscles of the lumbopelvic area. It’s important for back pain sufferers. Changes in hip muscles may stem from alterations in the cross-sectional area and volume of muscle. Why is this of value? It suggests that development of exercise programs to improve hip muscle function in back pain patients is essential. (5) Surgeons are even noting value in having patients who choose back surgery do “prehabilitation” exercises before back surgery as it improved range of motion, leg pain intensity, lumbar spine extensor muscle endurance and walking capacity…with no adverse side effects. (6) Vancouver Disc Centers offers treatment programs of exercise blended with evidence based spinal manipulation and nutrition to avert back surgery when feasible as well as56 pre-habilitate and rehabilitate Vancouver back pain patients!
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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Matt Alexander on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he explains the use of Cox® Technic flexion distraction to reduce the pain of lumbar spinal stenosis.
Schedule a Vancouver chiropractic appointment for your back pain and hip pain. Vancouver chiropractic treatment plan will likely include some of that exercise you’ve heard is good! Don’t fret. We will collaborate to ensure the exercise is good for you.
