Exercise is effective and helpful. Exercise is integral to the chiropractic care plan for spine pain issues of types. Patients get to be a part of their own care and healing when they do their exercises. Dr. Le's Chiropractic & Wellness, L.L.C. knows our Auburn chiropractic patients just want to get back to doing what they want to do, what they used to do.
Lax muscles reduce motion in low back pain patients. Dr. Le's Chiropractic & Wellness, L.L.C. 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)
One article shares that doing a little exercise does a lot! Patients who did just 2 days of muscle strengthening a week reduced the risk for low back pain. (And this article, as a side note, shares that smoking is also a powerful factor in the equation of whether you get back pain or not. It’s best not to smoke.) (2) Dr. Le's Chiropractic & Wellness, L.L.C. presents simple exercises you can do in a short amount of time from the comfort of your own bedroom if you like! They’ll make a big impact. You’ll see!
Chronic nonspecific low back pain sufferers benefit from exercises like the lumbopelvic core stabilization exercises by positively influencing the pain perception by improving your pain threshold and reducing your pain intensity. (3) These exercises are not difficult, but they do work. Dr. Le's Chiropractic & Wellness, L.L.C. will share them with you so you can experience the most possible back pain relief. Dr. Le's Chiropractic & Wellness, L.L.C. is with you, our Auburn back pain patient, during your healing process with as much support as you need.
Back school is an extra such support. Back school and manipulation/mobilization are standards of care for working with 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 Dr. Le's Chiropractic & Wellness, L.L.C. chooses to use.
The addition of back school to the chiropractic treatment plan enriches the good outcomes of back pain rehabilitation. How? Back school fosters self-management, gives control back to the patient to help him/herself. (5) Dr. Le's Chiropractic & Wellness, L.L.C. tries to educate our back pain patients as to how and why their backs hurt and how to preclude or at least minimize future occurrences. A survey of patients who attended a back school in a chiropractor’s office showed 95% satisfaction with having gone to the course and 100% support of the doctor’s presenting it. (6) Auburn chiropractic patients at Dr. Le's Chiropractic & Wellness, L.L.C. are some of the most spine-smart people around!
Schedule a Auburn chiropractic appointment today. It is the natural next step in your journey to back pain relief. You can expect much at your first visit! Your chiropractic appointment will give you a firm grasp of what caused your pain and how you are able to contribute to its not disturbing you much in the future with exercise.
