West Des Moines Back Pain Relief Helped by Walking 90 Minutes Weekly
Just walk! It’s easy. It’s economical. It’s useful. Walking is an amazing way to get healthy and remain healthy. Walking is a fantastic way to find relief from chronic pain and back pain. Executive Chiropractic of Iowa's West Des Moines chiropractic back pain specialist often suggests walking as one of the initial things to try to West Des Moines back pain patients. Here is why…
WALK MORE. SIT LESS.
It may seem strange when Executive Chiropractic of Iowa asks about your sitting habits when you visit Executive Chiropractic of Iowa for West Des Moines back pain treatment and relief, but it’s not! It’s well known and now even supported by research that sitting for extended periods of time is a risk factor for low back pain. Recent research reports more emphatically that extensive sitting and low physical activity increases low back pain risk even more. (1) Executive Chiropractic of Iowa’s curiosity about your sitting habits is logical! Executive Chiropractic of Iowa’s recommendation to walk is, too.
West Des Moines WALKING BENEFITS
West Des Moines walking is advantageous for West Des Moines back pain relief along with the back pain relieving West Des Moines chiropractic care at Executive Chiropractic of Iowa! Walking is helpful for chronic musculoskeletal pain sufferers as those with low back pain, fibromyalgia and osteoarthritis. Walking is an effective kind of exercise for chronic pain relief and is associated with significant improvements in pain and function. (2) Exercise and physical activities like muscle strengthening and aerobic exercise have lots of support for effectively managing low back pain. Weekly walking is gaining more and more approval to be added to this list of effective activities. For over-50 year olds, weekly walking of 90 minutes a week decreases the risk of low back pain. Elongated walking sessions are seemingly better. Routine walking with lengthier duration for more than 3 days a week is significantly associated with reduced low back pain risk. (3) Excitingly, a walking program is research-documented to offer the lowest costs and the best chance of adherence by back pain patients. (4) Executive Chiropractic of Iowa understands that our West Des Moines chiropractic patients will like that balance!
CONTACT Executive Chiropractic of Iowa
Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Amanda Harris on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson about how well Cox® Technic helped a spinal stenosis back pain patient get back to walking and start enjoying the benefits of walking, again.
Schedule a West Des Moines chiropractic appointment now. Executive Chiropractic of Iowa understands that West Des Moines back pain sufferers want pain relief. The suggestion of “just walk” may be the right one for you! Walking is simple, inexpensive, and on your own schedule!
