Ashburn and Herndon Back Pain Relief with Paraspinal Muscle Health

Paraspinal muscles? Where are they? These muscles align the spine. They support the spine and allow it to move. And their health matters. Their health play a role in your posture, your back pain condition, and your ability to move your spine as you need and desire.  Poulin Chiropractic of Herndon and Ashburn recommends exercises as part of the chiropractic treatment plan to strengthen and maintain the strength of these important paraspinal muscles in the control of Ashburn and Herndon back pain and relief of back pain.

HOW DOES EXERCISE HELP PARASPINAL MUSCLES IN BACK PAIN?

The spine’s paraspinal muscles are the action muscles of the spine. They surround your whole spine. They reposition your spine. Otherwise known as the erector spinae, paraspinal muscles let you lean, bend, twist, and arch your back. Their ability to do what they do is linked to the health of their surrounding tissues. A recent study documented that damage to the spine’s vertebral bones’ endplates plays a part in chronic low back pain. Endplate damage and chronic low back pain patients’ symptoms are reported to depend on paraspinal muscle quality. Efforts to strengthen the paraspinal muscles can be beneficial. (1) Occasionally finding the right exercise for you is key.

EXERCISE CAN HELP PARASPINAL MUSCLES FOR MOST Ashburn and Herndon BACK PAIN SUFFERERS

Fatty infiltration of muscles affects Ashburn and Herndon low back pain. Muscle weakness affects low back pain. Exercise is suggested. In another recent study, high-intensity exercise didn’t change these two concerns for all participants. However, for those who did display improvement in fat content and weakness, functional improvement followed. (2) At least most of us can exercise to help our backs’ paraspinal muscles.  Astronauts can’t! Their paraspinal and quadratus lumborum muscles were still weak 2 to 4 years after their returning from space. Researchers speculate that these changes added to the back pain astronauts suffer. (3) Ashburn and Herndon doesn’t have many astronauts in its population, so Poulin Chiropractic of Herndon and Ashburn will help you figure out the proper form of exercise – be it high intensity or other such exercise – for your optimal improvement of Ashburn and Herndon back pain.  

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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Hamisi Kote Ali on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson who presents how treatment of paraspinal muscles via fascia manipulation goes hand-in-hand with spinal manipulation treatment utilizing gentle Cox® Technic to handle spine-related pain.

Schedule a Ashburn and Herndon chiropractic appointment with Poulin Chiropractic of Herndon and Ashburn today. Together, we’ll determine the strength or lack thereof of your paraspinal muscles, your erector spinae muscles, and determine the specific exercises to strengthen them for your spine’s most favorable alignment and movement.