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. Poulin Chiropractic of Herndon and Ashburn knows our Ashburn and Herndon chiropractic patients just want to get back to doing what they want to do, what they used to do.
Weak back muscles don’t allow fluid spinal motion in low back pain patients. Poulin Chiropractic of Herndon and Ashburn 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 there is big payoff for doing a little exercise! Muscle strengthening activity done just two days a week lowers the odds of 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 is better not to smoke.) (2) Poulin Chiropractic of Herndon and Ashburn offers simple exercises you can do in a short amount of time from the comfort of your own bedroom if you like! You will see just how big an impact these exercises will make on your healing.
Chronic nonspecific low back pain sufferers gain from exercises like the lumbopelvic core stabilization exercises by positively affecting the pain perception by improving your pain threshold and dropping your pain intensity. (3) These exercises are not difficult, but they do work. Poulin Chiropractic of Herndon and Ashburn will who you how to do them so you can feel the best possible back pain relief. Poulin Chiropractic of Herndon and Ashburn is with you, our Ashburn and Herndon back pain patient, through 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 suggested over many other types of care. (4) Cox Technic, an evidence based system of spine care, is spinal manipulation that Poulin Chiropractic of Herndon and Ashburn chooses to use.
Adding 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) Poulin Chiropractic of Herndon and Ashburn tries to educate our back pain patients as to how and why their backs hurt and how to avoid or at least diminish the chances of future occurrences. One study of just how well back school is received by back pain patients is a study of those who attended a back school at a chiropractor’s office. Back pain patients reported 95% satisfaction with taking time to attend, and 100% said it was worth the doctor’s time to share the material. (6) Ashburn and Herndon chiropractic patients at Poulin Chiropractic of Herndon and Ashburn are some of the most spine-smart people around!
Schedule a Ashburn and Herndon chiropractic appointment today. It’s the first step toward back pain relief and its prevention. 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 might avoid its annoyance in the future with exercise.
