Ashburn and Herndon Chiropractic Back Pain Relief Benefits from Regular Exercise
Independence. It is an admirable quality. Most of the time. When it comes to exercise, seeking some guidance more often is better. Poulin Chiropractic of Herndon and Ashburn is equipped to be your guide! Ashburn and Herndon back pain sufferers can rely on Poulin Chiropractic of Herndon and Ashburn to set up, demonstrate and supervise an exercise routine that is pain relieving specially for you!
BENEFIT OF SUPERVISED EXERCISE
Research demonstrates that supervised exercise therapy begets significant symptom relief and bettered quality of life for patients with intermittent claudication by increasing maximal walking distance in just three months. Sadly, it’s underutilized. Home based exercise therapy with observation tools like a pedometer or logbook and walking are other beneficial alternatives to supervised exercise, allowing a bit more of the preferred independence. (1) Ashburn and Herndon back pain patients may benefit just like these back pain patients. Spinal stenosis back pain patients would appreciate walking more in such a way!
MORE FREQUENT SUPERVISED SESSIONS BENEFICIAL
A newer study reports that supervised physical therapy for lumbar spinal stenosis patients gave significant short-term improvements in symptom severity, walking distance, pain, physical activity and function in comparison to unsupervised. (2) A follow-up study evaluated a more specialized schedule of supervised physical therapy visits – two times a week and one time a week - to home exercise. It reports specifically that 6 weeks of supervised physical therapy twice a week for lumbar spinal stenosis patients provided significant short term improvements in the severity of symptoms, physical function, back and leg pain and gait disturbance compared with once a week PT visits and home exercise alone. (3) Our Ashburn and Herndon back pain patients would embrace all these improvements, no doubt!
EXERCISE AS PART OF AN OVERALL BACK PAIN RELIEF TREATMENT PLAN
Improvement is the goal for back pain management. Independence only gets you so far when dealing with back pain. There is always a tipping point when the pain just can’t be dealt with any more! Then a trip to the doctor is arranged. Many articles are written about how the doctor seen first often sets the course for subsequent care. (That was the subject of another blog!) Regarding exercise and physical therapy for back pain, though, these are conservative management forms that are often too infrequently used while opioid prescriptions are very common in the year before elective lumbar spine surgery: 84.4% opioid prescription and 14.6% minimum of 6 exercise therapy visits. (4) Poulin Chiropractic of Herndon and Ashburn is honored to partner with you for back pain relief. Your Ashburn and Herndon chiropractor is an experienced Ashburn and Herndon back pain specialist whose treatment plan incorporates the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management and exercise.
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Schedule your Ashburn and Herndon chiropractic visit with Poulin Chiropractic of Herndon and Ashburn today. Together, we’ll set up a comprehensive treatment plan for you that will allow a nice balance of independence and supervision for best Ashburn and Herndon back pain relief.
