Exercise is good and beneficial. Exercise is integral to the chiropractic care plan for spine pain issues of types. Exercise also allows the patient to take control of their pain relief. Amelia Chiropractic Clinic knows our Fernandina Beach 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. Amelia Chiropractic Clinic 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, suggests that smoking is also an influential factor in your risk of getting back pain. It’s best not to smoke.) (2) Amelia Chiropractic Clinic offers simple exercises you can do in just a few minutes from the comfort of your own home if you like! You will see just how big an impact these exercises will make on your healing.
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. Amelia Chiropractic Clinic will share them with you so you can attain the most possible back pain relief. Amelia Chiropractic Clinic is with you, our Fernandina Beach back pain patient, throughout your whole course of healing with as much support as you need.
Back school is an extra such support. Back school and manipulation/mobilization are standards of care for managing chronic nonspecific low back pain. These two approaches are suggested over many other types of care. (4) Amelia Chiropractic Clinic uses spinal manipulation in the form of Cox Technic, a chiropractic evidence based system of spine care.
The chiropractic treatment plan is enhanced when back school is included in the overall back pain rehabilitation plan. How? Back school nurtures self-management, gives control back to the patient to take care of him/herself. (5) Amelia Chiropractic Clinic 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. A survey of patients who went to 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) Fernandina Beach chiropractic patients at Amelia Chiropractic Clinic are some of the most spine-smart people around!
Schedule a Fernandina Beach 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 clear understanding of what caused your pain and how you might avoid its aggravation in the future with exercise.
