Back pain - nonspecific or chronic or subacute – can benefit from exercise. Our Severna Park back pain patients
know from day 1 that they can exercise safely and gently. We show
how to do easy, effective ones that will help
you feel some control over your situation.
Back And Neck Care Center is your Severna Park exercise coach as well as your
spinal manipulation
chiropractor: the best of both realms!
EXERCISE EFFICACY FOR LOW BACK PAIN
Low back pain patients do well with
therapeutic exercise in strengthening trunk muscles and enhancing
spine stability. There are many exercise options obtainable
from core stabilization and strengthening to motor control exercises and muscle
strengthening. In one study of subacute nonspecific low back pain
sufferers, core stabilization exercises proved
better than stabilization exercises regarding proprioception,
balance, muscle (transverse abdoiminis, lumbar multifidus) thickness, reducing
patients’ fear of movement, and functional disability. (1) Another study reported
core stabilization exercise to decrease pain, improve
function, and boost core strength in nonspecific low back pain
patients. (2) Spine stabilization exercises and flexion exercises performed24
daily both benefited multifidus muscle
thickness in patients with chronic low back pain and spondylolisthesis. (3) Advice: Pick
one that you are most likely to do (after we discuss it!)! Your back pain will appreciate
it.
EXERCISE FOR NON-SPECIFIC LOW BACK PAIN
Regardless of a diagnosis of non-specific low
back pain that may frustrate you (We all want to understand
what lies below our pain!), exercise offers hope of its
management. A new study found that exercise
training in-person and via multimedia/video were effective in
training back pain patients to appropriately perform
the more complex motor control exercises. (4) Core exercises along with hip muscle strengthening effectively enhanced
physical activity and function for nonspecific low back pain patients. (5) Severna Park
back pain patients seeking some pain relief are encouraged
to exercise as part of an
overall chiropractic treatment plan.
EXERCISE WITH SPINAL MANIPULATION
Combining efforts offers even
more hope for back pain patients despite the diagnosis.
One case report of a 24-year-old patient with a recurrent disc herniation and
pain after back surgery laminectomy shared that flexion
distraction spinal manipulation along with rehab exercise
(in this case: bird dog and core stabilization) got relief and recovery.
(6) In caring for back pain in patients who have already had
back surgery (laminectomy, fusion, discectomy) like the above patient did, clinicians receiving spinal
manipulation tend toward using gentler non-manual-thrust
spinal manipulation while chiropractors tended to use
manual thrust. Spinal manipulation was used less than a
year after back surgery in 66% of cases in this study. Treating healthcare
providers utilized spinal manipulation with 85% of
patients who experienced persistent back pain after spine surgery. (7) Back And Neck Care Center carefully
examines and decides the gentlest treatment technique for
you.
CONTACT Back And Neck Care Center
Listen to this PODCAST
with Dr. Kurt Olding on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson
as he describes how the many spine care options may
be overwhelming as well as the
benefit of the gentle care via The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain
Management that alleviates back pain.
Schedule your Severna Park chiropractic
appointment today. No matter the back pain source
or condition, bring it to Back And Neck Care Center. We’ll find a way
forward together!