Exercise to Strengthen Muscle in Women Helps with Largo Back Pain Relief

March 23, 2021

Low back pain in older women demands some attention. Researchers and chiropractic back pain specialists like your Largo chiropractor at Hollstrom & Associates Inc provide that attention! Women who experience back pain are a special subset of our chiropractic practice with whom we love to work!

OLDER WOMEN AND Largo BACK PAIN

A recent report shared that low back pain among older women stems from abdominal truck muscle weakness. The women described in this study also experienced reduced mobility function. Even their knee extensor muscle strength was weak. What links these concerns together? Muscle. Researchers explained that muscle weakness directly tied low back pain, malnutrition, and decreased mobility function in older women. The good news was emphasized that exercise improved these issues. (1) Hollstrom & Associates Inc  witnesses over and over the benefit of exercise for our Largo back pain patients.

EXERCISE AND BACK PAIN RELIEF

Largo chiropractic patients with back pain want pain relief. That’s the goal of care. Our patients frequently try other healthcare options like oral NSAIDs (number needed to treat (NNT) is 7 indicating sever patients need to be treated for 1 patient to experience benefit) and SNRIs like duloxetine (NNT: 10) and exercise (NNT: 7). A new study reported that these options often deliver clinically meaningful pain decrease as demonstrated by the above number-needed-to-treat stats. Which works over time though? Exercise. The researchers wrote that the single intervention that demonstrated sustained benefit after the study’s intervention time period ended was exercise. (2) We share this to encourage exercise for all our Largo back pain (and neck pain) patients. For purposes of this article about women with low back pain, Hollstrom & Associates Inc encourages our female patients who are a little older to exercise. It’s central to the chiropractic treatment plan that involves simple exercises as the starting point!

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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Francis Bigas Morales on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as she describes treatment of lumbago suffered by a patient and the treatment plan for pain relief with the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.   

Schedule your Largo chiropractic appointment soon.  We specially care for our female patients who experience back pain! We will do our part in designing an personalized treatment plan and exercise guide to encourage you to do your part with exercise for best back pain relief!

 
Hollstrom & Associates Inc shares new research about how beneficial exercise is, especially for older women with back pain.