Exercise is good and beneficial. It goes hand-in-hand with chiropractic care of spine pain conditions of all sorts. Exercise also allows the patient to take part in their healing. Hollstrom & Associates Inc incorporates exercise into the chiropractic treatment plan for all our Largo patients to get them back to enjoying the quality of life they want.
Lax muscles reduce motion in low back pain patients. Hollstrom & Associates Inc knows this isn’t good for our Largo back pain patients! Why do back pain patients have weaker muscles? 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)
One article shares that there is big payoff for doing a little exercise! Muscle strengthening activity performed just two days a week reduces the odds of low back pain. (And this article, as a side note, suggests that smoking is also an influential factor in the equation of whether you get back pain or not. It’s best not to smoke.) (2) Hollstrom & Associates Inc recommends simple exercises you can do in just a few minutes from the comfort of your own bedroom 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 dropping your pain intensity. (3) These exercises are not difficult, but they do work. Hollstrom & Associates Inc will share them with you so you can attain the best possible back pain relief. Hollstrom & Associates Inc is with you, our Largo back pain patient, throughout your whole course of healing 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 suggested over many other types of care. (4) Cox Technic, an evidence based system of spine care, is spinal manipulation that Hollstrom & Associates Inc chooses to use.
The chiropractic treatment plan is enhanced when back school is added to the overall back pain rehabilitation plan. How? Back school fosters self-management, gives control back to the patient to help him/herself. (5) Hollstrom & Associates Inc strives to educate our back pain patients as to how and why their backs hurt and how to preclude or at least diminish the chances of future occurrences. A survey of patients who went to a back school in a chiropractor’s office showed 95% satisfaction with having attended the course and 100% support of the doctor’s presenting it. (6) Largo chiropractic patients at Hollstrom & Associates Inc are some of the wisest and knowledgeable spine-informed people around!
Schedule a Largo chiropractic appointment today. It’s the first step on the way to back pain relief and its prevention. You can expect much at your first visit! Your chiropractic appointment will give you a firm grasp of what caused your pain and how you are able to contribute to its not disturbing you much in the future with exercise.
