West Des Moines Chiropractic Exercise Recommendation Benefits for Sleep and Back Pain
Exercise. West Des Moines back pain sufferers get the recommendation to exercise a lot. Executive Chiropractic of Iowa recommends it, also. Exercise continues to show its benefit for low back pain relief and prevention…and a new report shows benefit for improved sleep quality!
EXERCISE FOR RELIEF OF THE BURDEN OF LOW BACK PAIN
Low back pain is a problem for the low back pain sufferer, the family, the community, and the healthcare system. Healthcare providers and researchers investigate suggested long-term methods to decrease this problem for whose sufferers’ disability continues. Exercise tops the list of non-invasive, non-drug general recommendations along with manual therapy and massage. (1) Executive Chiropractic of Iowa offers itself as the West Des Moines back pain specialty clinic that many back pain sufferers visit.
BACK PAIN SPECIALIST’S PLAN FOR BACK PAIN RELIEF ADDS EXERCISE
Countless chronic back pain sufferers visit their primary care practitioners first. It’s a pretty standard routing. Primary care recommendations for chronic low back pain care usually involve exercise, oral prescriptions of NSAIDs and SNRI’s like duloxetine. In research, there is an interesting statistic called “number to treat” which denotes the number of patients with a certain condition who need to have it done the treatment recommendation for 1 of the treatment recipients to find benefit. In this new study, the number to treat for 1 chronic low back pain patient to report benefit from exercise was 7, from NSAIDs 6, and SNRIs 10. Of these three options, exercise was the only intervention that showed continued chronic low back pain relief after the intervention ended and up to 48 weeks later. (2) Exercise is a valuable, self-management, non-drug option for chronic low back pain patients. Executive Chiropractic of Iowa always includes it in the West Des Moines chiropractic treatment plan. Exercise puts some control of chronic low back pain in our West Des Moines chiropractic patients’ hands.
WHAT ABOUT SLEEP AND EXERCISE?
An additional beneficial patient-controlled option is sleep-and-exercise. Lack of sleep – time and/or quality – is an issue for so many West Des Moines chiropractic patients. Executive Chiropractic of Iowa often hears our patients talk about sleep difficulties. Sleep is rejuvenating for the body and the mind. Exercise is manytimes prescribed to address sleep and mood issues. An interesting study about the relationship between sleep and exercise highlights some interesting findings in young men and women. There are differences for each! Men who exercised more frequently reported falling asleep quicker, less daytime issues, and less depressive mood. Women who exercised more frequently went to bed early, had better sleep quality, and reported more benefit from sleep, less depressive mood, and less anger. (3) Regular exercise is key for so many concerns!
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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Pamela Aaron on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as she describes a case of a young female patient with low back pain and her treatment with the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management plus strengthening exercise that helped.
Set up your West Des Moines chiropractic appointment now. “Exercise.” It’s a recommendation Executive Chiropractic of Iowa will continue to share for back pain relief and prevention as well as sleep improvement.
