Toronto Back Pain Relief Helped by Exercise

June 29, 2023

Back pain - nonspecific or chronic or subacute – can benefit from exercise. Our Toronto back pain patients know from day 1 that they can move, they can exercise safely. We demonstrate how to do easy, helpful ones that will allow you some control over your pain. Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre is your Toronto exercise coach as well as your spinal manipulation chiropractor: the best of both worlds!

EXERCISE EFFICACY FOR LOW BACK PAIN

Low back pain patients get results with therapeutic exercise in strengthening trunk muscles and enhancing spine stability. There is a variety of exercise options available from core stabilization and strengthening to motor control exercises and muscle strengthening. In one study of subacute nonspecific low back pain sufferers, core stabilization exercises were better than stabilization exercises regarding proprioception, balance, muscle (transverse abdoiminis, lumbar multifidus) thickness, decreasing patients’ fear of movement, and functional disability. (1) Another study stated core stabilization exercise to lessen pain, improve function, and boost core strength in nonspecific low back pain patients. (2) Spine stabilization exercises and flexion exercises performed24 daily equally increased multifidus muscle thickness in patients with chronic low back pain and spondylolisthesis . (3) Advice: Pick one that you like to do (after we discuss it!)! Your back pain will thank you.

EXERCISE FOR NON-SPECIFIC LOW BACK PAIN

Regardless of a diagnosis of non-specific low back pain being frustrating (We all want to understand what lies below our pain!), exercise offers hope of its management. A new study found that exercise training in-person and via multimedia/video were good for training back pain patients to appropriately perform the more complex motor control exercises. (4) Core exercises with the addition of hip muscle strengthening effectively improved physical activity and function for nonspecific low back pain patients. (5) Toronto back pain patients seeking some pain relief are encouraged to do exercises as part of an overall chiropractic treatment plan.

EXERCISE WITH SPINAL MANIPULATION

Combining efforts proposes even more hope for back pain patients regardless of diagnosis. One case report of a 24-year-old patient with a recurrent disc herniation and pain after back surgery laminectomy shared that flexion distraction spinal manipulation along with rehab exercise (in this case: bird dog and core stabilization) found relief and improvement. (6) In caring for back pain in patients who have undergone back surgery (laminectomy, fusion, discectomy) like the above patient did, clinicians using spinal manipulation tend toward using gentler non-manual-thrust spinal manipulation while chiropractors leaned toward using manual thrust. Spinal manipulation was used less than 12 months after back surgery in 66% of cases in this study. Treating healthcare providers utilized spinal manipulation with 85% of patients who experienced persistent back pain after spine surgery(7) Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre thoroughly examines and decides the gentlest treatment technique for your spine.

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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Kurt Olding on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he shares how the many spine care options may be overwhelming as well as the benefit of the gentle care via The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management that relieves back pain.

Make your Toronto chiropractic appointment today. Whatever the back pain source or condition, bring it to Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre. [{We will|We’ll]61] find a path forward together!

 
Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre suggests exercise for Toronto low back pain relief