No Exercise Often Increases Risk of More West Des Moines Pain & Disease Progression
Do something. Move. Walk. Stretch. Pain sufferers benefit when they do something. A lack of exercise is a risk for deteriorating pain, both pain in the body and pain in the mind in the form of depression. Executive Chiropractic of Iowa sees many West Des Moines back pain patients in pain who also suffer with depression. Executive Chiropractic of Iowa also understands that when our West Des Moines chiropractic patients do something, they get better in body and mind.
NO EXERCISE RAISES RISK OF STENOSIS PROGRESSION
Spinal stenosis is a familiar diagnosis. It is the decrease of the spinal canal area as a result of degeneration. A new study reported that risk of spinal stenosis progression is higher for those who had spondylolisthesis, experienced pain (in leg and/or back) when walking, and more severe stenosis. The absence of therapeutic exercise was also discovered to a risk factor for the progression of spinal stenosis. (1) Back pain sufferers like those with spinal stenosis and spondylolisthesis need exercise! Executive Chiropractic of Iowa helps each of our chiropractic patients find what exercise fits them.
EXERCISE IMPROVES FUNCTION
Nonspecific low back pain sufferers improved their functional disability status better with stabilization and/or McKenzie exercises than with conventional exercise programs. (2) Notice though that exercise did help, whether or not it was conventional!
EXERCISE IMPROVES DEPRESSION
For many back pain sufferers with specific or non-specific back pain, chronic or not, may well describe themselves as a little down when their back pain hangs around a while. It’s not unusual. Again, exercise helps! Another study reported that exercise (low dose or moderate-dose strength and conditioning) helped reduce depressive symptoms in adults with chronic low back pain. Blending exercise and manual therapy was a bonus! (3) Executive Chiropractic of Iowa brings in as many positive approaches to back pain relief as possible to help our West Des Moines back pain patients! The Cox® Technic System of Spine Pain Management is one of those approaches.
CONTACT Executive Chiropractic of Iowa
Schedule a West Des Moines chiropractic visit for relief of your back pain. Executive Chiropractic of Iowa does something to help. Executive Chiropractic of Iowa offers chiropractic spinal manipulation and exercise as feature of its treatment plan for back pain sufferers. We know that when our back pain patients do something - walk, stretch or move - they find themselves feeling better!
