Carrolltown Chiropractic Exercise Recommendation Benefits for Sleep and Back Pain
Exercise. Carrolltown back pain sufferers get the advice to exercise often. Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation recommends it, too. Exercise keeps showing its benefit for relief of low back pain and its prevention…and a new report reveals benefit for better sleep quality!
EXERCISE FOR RELIEF OF THE BURDEN OF LOW BACK PAIN
Low back pain is a problem for the low back pain sufferer, the family, the community, and the healthcare system. Healthcare providers and researchers investigate proposed long-term methods to decrease this problem for whose sufferers’ disability continues. Exercise leads the list of non-invasive, non-drug general recommendations along with manual therapy and massage. (1) Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation is the Carrolltown back pain specialty clinic to which many back pain sufferers go.
BACK PAIN SPECIALIST’S PLAN FOR BACK PAIN RELIEF ADDS EXERCISE
Many chronic back pain sufferers take themselves to their primary care practitioners first. it is a pretty normal experience. Primary care recommendations for chronic low back pain care usually involve exercise, oral prescriptions of NSAIDs and SNRI’s like duloxetine. In research, there is a curious statistic called “number to treat” which indicates the number of patients with a certain condition who need to have it done the treatment recommendation for 1 of them to report benefit. In this new study, the number to treat for 1 chronic low back pain patient to report benefit from exercise was 7, from NSAIDs 6, and SNRIs 10. Of these three options, exercise was the only intervention that demonstrated continued chronic low back pain relief after the intervention ended and up to 48 weeks later. (2) Exercise is a valuable, self-management, non-drug option for chronic low back pain patients. Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation always incorporates it in the Carrolltown chiropractic treatment plan. Exercise puts some control of chronic low back pain in our Carrolltown chiropractic patients’ hands.
WHAT ABOUT SLEEP AND EXERCISE?
An additional beneficial patient-controlled option is the sleep and exercise option. Lack of sleep – time and/or quality – is an issue for so many Carrolltown chiropractic patients. Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation often hears our patients discuss sleep difficulties. Sleep is renewing for the body and the mind. Exercise is manytimes prescribed to address sleep and mood issues. An interesting study about the relationship between sleep and exercise highlights some interesting findings in young men and women. There are differences for each! Men who exercised more frequently reported falling asleep quicker, less daytime issues, and less depressive mood. Women who exercised more frequently went to bed earlier, experienced improved sleep quality, and described more benefit from sleep, less depressive mood, and less anger. (3) Regular exercise is important for so many concerns!
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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Pamela Aaron on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as she shares a case of a young lady with low back pain and her treatment with the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management and strengthening exercise that helped.
Set up your Carrolltown chiropractic appointment soon. “Exercise.” It’s a recommendation Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation will keep sharing for back pain relief and prevention as well as improved sleep.
