Exercise is effective and helpful. Exercise is integral to the chiropractic care plan for spine pain issues of types. Exercise also allows the patient to take control of their pain relief. Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation incorporates exercise into the chiropractic treatment plan for all our Carrolltown patients to get them back to enjoying the quality of life they want.
Weak back muscles don’t allow fluid spinal motion in low back pain patients. Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation doesn’t consider this helpful at all! 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)
Researchers find that there is big payoff for doing a little exercise! Patients who did just 2 days of muscle strengthening a week lowered the risk for low back pain. (And this article, as a side note, shares that smoking is also a powerful factor in your risk of getting back pain. Recommendation: Don’t smoke!) (2) Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation offers simple exercises you can do in a short amount of time from the comfort of your own home if you like! You’ll notice the difference these make!
Chronic nonspecific low back pain sufferers gain from exercises like the lumbopelvic core stabilization exercises by positively affecting the pain perception by improving your pain threshold and reducing your pain intensity. (3) Such exercises aren’t hard; they’re just effective! Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation will share them with you so you can attain the most possible back pain relief. Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation is with you, our Carrolltown back pain patient, through your healing process with as much support as you need.
Back school is another 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 types of care. (4) Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation uses spinal manipulation in the form of Cox Technic, a chiropractic evidence based system of spine care.
The chiropractic treatment plan is enhanced 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) Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation strives to educate our back pain patients as to how and why their backs hurt and how to prevent or at least curtail 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 taking time to attend, and 100% said it was worth the doctor’s time to present it. (6) Carrolltown chiropractic patients at Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation are some of the most spine-smart people around!
Schedule a Carrolltown chiropractic appointment today. You’ll be well on your way to 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 annoyance in the future with exercise.
