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 Carrolltown chiropractor at Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation ponder how to get back pain patients to do recommended exercises. After all, these exercises help back pain sufferers get stronger in addition to decrease and prevent back pain! The back muscles and gluteus muscles and hamstrings get stronger. Patients speculate why the chiropractor suggests exercises when all they wanted was for the chiropractor to fix the back pain problem. What a dilemma! Both the Carrolltown chiropractor and Carrolltown chiropractic patient have the same goal - pain relief – but their beliefs, experiences and expectations are different. (1) That is how it is. Research shows this. Clinical experience shows this. When patients admit this and their chiropractors admit this, everyone then works together to relieve Carrolltown back pain, prevent future pain, and strengthen muscle. Let’s do that!
EXERCISE GUIDELINES TO REDUCE 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 for treating 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) Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation carefully considers these in caring for Carrolltown 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 cause pain, resulting in weakened muscles like the gluteus maximus. Lengthy immobilization or inactivity prevents use of these muscles. In low back pain patients, a weak gluteus maximus is a common finding. Researchers document that the gluteus maximus cross-sectional area is decreased in low back pain sufferers, particularly in women. (3) For Carrolltown chiropractic back pain patients experiencing persistent lumbopelvic pain and test positive for sacroiliac joint dysfunction, performing gluteus maximus strengthening exercises is advantageous. Patients who did exercise found a decrease 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 improved lumbar spine muscle strength and balance better than just lumbar segmental stabilization exercise alone. (5) To stimulate the gluteus maximus muscles, erector spinae and hamstrings more deliverately during exercise, researchers devised a unique laser pointer system that permitted the exercise participants to visualize their muscle usage. This enhanced their form. (6) Let your Carrolltown chiropractor be your laser pointer! Follow proposed tips for how to exercise properly.
CONTACT Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation
Schedule your Carrolltown chiropractic appointment to set up a treatment plan that involves your Carrolltown chiropractor treating as well as your exercising to build up muscles. When the Carrolltown chiropractor and the Carrolltown chiropractic patient both “get” each other, Carrolltown back pain is history!
