Glute Strengthening Plus Chiropractic Eases Back Pain
Patient to the chiropractor: “Treat me so I don’t hurt.”
Chiropractor: “Be sure to do your exercises, so you won’t hurt.”
Chiropractors like your Vancouver chiropractor at Vancouver Disc Centers speculate how to get back pain patients to do recommended exercises. In any case, these exercises help back pain sufferers get stronger plus decrease and prevent back pain! The back muscles and gluteus muscles and hamstrings get greater. Patients wonder why the chiropractor suggests exercises since all they wanted was for the chiropractor to resolve the back pain problem. What a dilemma! Both the Vancouver chiropractor and Vancouver chiropractic patient have the same goal - pain relief – but their beliefs, experiences and expectations vary. (1) That’s how it is. Research shows this. Clinical experience shows this. When patients recognize this and their chiropractors recognize this, everyone then does his/her part to relieve Vancouver back pain, prevent future pain, and strengthen muscle. Let us do that!
EXERCISE GUIDELINES TO LESSEN AND PREVENT BACK PAIN AND NECK PAIN
Guidelines for what to do with back pain and neck pain are established. Exercise is amid the recommendations for the non-invasive pharmacological and non-pharmacological therapies to help acute and chronic low back pain and neck pain both devoid of serious pathology and with radiculopathy. Spinal manipulation and manual therapy are also listed in these guidelines by the Global Spine Care Initiative. (2) Vancouver Disc Centers carefully considers these in caring for Vancouver back pain.
BACK PAIN BENEFITS FROM STRONG GLUTEAL MUSCLES
Patients with low back pain are more likely to be less active. Pain influences that decision. Low back pain patients fear that activity may initiate pain, resulting in weakened muscles like the gluteus maximus. Prolonged immobilization or sedentariness prevents use of these muscles. In low back pain patients, a weak gluteus maximus is a common finding. Researchers report that the gluteus maximus cross-sectional area is decreased in low back pain sufferers, particularly for women. (3) For Vancouver chiropractic back pain patients feeling unrelenting lumbopelvic pain and test positive for sacroiliac joint dysfunction, performing gluteus maximus strengthening exercises is beneficial. Patients who did these found a lessening in pain and an improvement in gluteus maximum strength and function. (4) Doing both - exercise to strengthening the gluteus maximus muscles and lumbar segmental stabilization exercise – reduced low back pain disability significantly more and increased lumbar spine muscle strength and balance better than just lumbar segmental stabilization exercise by itself. (5) To activate the gluteus maximus muscles, erector spinae and hamstrings more deliverately during exercise, researchers developed a unique laser pointer system that permitted the exercise participants to see their muscle usage. This enhanced their form. (6) Let your Vancouver chiropractor be your laser pointer! Listen to advised tips for how to exercise properly.
CONTACT Vancouver Disc Centers
Schedule your Vancouver chiropractic appointment to set up a treatment plan that involves your Vancouver chiropractor treating and your exercising to strengthen muscles. When the Vancouver chiropractor and the Vancouver chiropractic patient both “get” each other, Vancouver back pain is history!
