West Des Moines Chiropractic Incorporates Simple Exercise for Back Pain Relief
So simple: exercise. For a person who just doesn’t exercise or hasn’t felt how good it feels to exercise, it might be so simple. But for a person with back pain, simple exercise can be a huge help. Executive Chiropractic of Iowa would never press our West Des Moines back pain patients to train for a marathon, but Executive Chiropractic of Iowa gently encourages a walk to the mailbox or down the driveway! Executive Chiropractic of Iowa encourages simple exercise to our West Des Moines back pain patients as part of the comprehensive West Des Moines chiropractic treatment plan for back pain relief.
WHY EXERCISE FOR West Des Moines BACK PAIN RELIEF?
Executive Chiropractic of Iowa understands that exercise (along with spinal manipulation!) adds to the rehabilitation program of patients who have had West Des Moines back surgery. In one report, a patient with leg pain after back surgery found 89% improvement at a 3 month follow-up after receiving spinal manipulation and exercise care. (1) Executive Chiropractic of Iowa uses exercise and spinal manipulation via the Cox® Technic system to alleviate West Des Moines back pain in sufferers after surgery and to prevent back surgery by decreasing the back pain symptom generators.
HOW DOES EXERCISE HELP West Des Moines BACK PAIN?
Exercise is a potential treatment for West Des Moines low back pain, obesity and inflammation symptomatology. How? Adipose, fatty tissue lets go of numerous types of cytokines - pro-inflammatory and anti-inflammatory – which heightens the inflammatory response of C-reactive protein which is associated with musculoskeletal pain feeling in back pain sufferers. How does this affect West Des Moines back pain patients? Overweight patients tend to feel more pain. One certain inflammation marker, prostaglandin E2, triggers fever and the feeling of pain and inflammation associated to low back pain. Exercise steps in to control these issues. (2) Bottomline: West Des Moines back pain patients would do well to exercise, move, be active, to the level they can. Begin small. Simple stabilization exercises bettered function, prevented fatigue and improved transverse abdominis contraction in herniated disc back pain patients. (3) Executive Chiropractic of Iowa recommends just taking a walk to the mailbox or corner then increasing the distance a bit each trip. Running races isn’t required! West Des Moines back pain patients see the change!
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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Joel Kirsch on the Back Doctor’s Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he describes a patient whose goal was to just walk, period, and how his care assisted her attain and exceed that goal with Cox Technic.
Schedule a West Des Moines chiropractic appointment with Executive Chiropractic of Iowa today for West Des Moines back pain relief. The West Des Moines chiropractic treatment plan for back pain relief urges simple, as simple as taking that initial walk to the front door of Executive Chiropractic of Iowa’s office!
