Exercise is effective and helpful. It goes hand-in-hand with chiropractic care of spine pain conditions of all sorts. Patients get to be a part of their own care and healing when they do their exercises. Executive Chiropractic of Iowa incorporates exercise into the chiropractic treatment plan for all our West Des Moines patients to get them back to enjoying the quality of life they want.
Lax muscles reduce motion in low back pain patients. Executive Chiropractic of Iowa doesn’t consider this helpful at all! 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)
Researchers find that there is big payoff for doing a little exercise! Muscle strengthening activity performed just two days a week lowers 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. Recommendation: Don’t smoke!) (2) Executive Chiropractic of Iowa offers 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 influencing the pain perception by increasing your pain threshold and reducing your pain intensity. (3) These exercises are not difficult, but they do work. Executive Chiropractic of Iowa will share them with you so you can attain the most possible back pain relief. Executive Chiropractic of Iowa is with you, our West Des Moines back pain patient, throughout your healing process with as much support as you need.
Back school is another such support. Back school and manipulation/mobilization are standards of care for handling chronic nonspecific low back pain. These two approaches are recommended over many other approaches. (4) Cox Technic, an evidence based system of spine care, is spinal manipulation that Executive Chiropractic of Iowa chooses to use.
The addition of back school to the chiropractic treatment plan enhances the positives of back pain rehabilitation. How? Back school fosters self-management, gives control back to the patient to help him/herself. (5) Executive Chiropractic of Iowa attempts to educate our back pain patients as to how and why their backs hurt and how to prevent or at least diminish the chances of future occurrences. A survey of patients who attended a back school in a chiropractor’s office showed 95% satisfaction with having attended the course and 100% support of the doctor’s providing it. (6) West Des Moines chiropractic patients at Executive Chiropractic of Iowa are some of the most spine-smart people around!
Schedule a West Des Moines chiropractic appointment today. It is the natural next step in your journey toward back pain relief. You can expect much at your first visit! Your chiropractic appointment will give you a clear understanding of what caused your pain and how you might avoid its aggravation in the future with exercise.
