Toronto Back Pain Relief Helped by Walking 90 Minutes Weekly
Just walk! It’s simple. It’s economical. It’s useful. Walking is a great way to get healthy and remain healthy. Walking is an amazing way to find relief from chronic pain and back pain. Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre's Toronto chiropractic back pain specialist often advises walking as one of the first activities to try to Toronto back pain patients. Here’s why…
WALK MORE. SIT LESS.
It may seem strange when Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre asks about your sitting habits when you come in for Toronto back pain treatment and relief, but it’s not! It is well known and now even research documented that sitting for extended periods of time is a risk factor for low back pain. Recent research goes even further to point out that longer sitting and low physical activity raises low back pain risk even more. (1) Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre’s curiosity about your sitting habits makes sense! Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre’s recommendation to walk does, too.
Toronto WALKING BENEFITS
Toronto walking is beneficial for Toronto back pain relief along with the back pain relieving Toronto chiropractic care at Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre! Walking is good for chronic musculoskeletal pain sufferers as those with low back pain, fibromyalgia and osteoarthritis. Walking is an effective kind of exercise for chronic pain relief and is associated with significant improvements in pain and function. (2) Exercise and physical activities like muscle strengthening and aerobic exercise have lots of backing for effectively managing low back pain. Weekly walking is growing more and more favor to be included on this list of effective exercises. For over-50 year olds, weekly walking of 90 minutes a week reduces the risk of low back pain. Elongated walking sessions are seemingly better. Regular walking for a longer time for more than 3 days a week is significantly affiliated with decreased low back pain risk. (3) Excitingly, a walking program is research-documented to have the lowest costs and the best chance of adherence by back pain patients. (4) Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre knows that our Toronto chiropractic patients will like that balance!
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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Amanda Harris on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson about how well Cox® Technic helped a spinal stenosis back pain patient return to walking and start enjoying the benefits of walking, again.
Schedule a Toronto chiropractic appointment today. Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre gets that Toronto back pain sufferers seek pain relief. The suggestion of “just walk” may be the right one for you! Walking is easy, cheap, and on your own time!
