Exercise is good and beneficial. It goes hand-in-hand with chiropractic care of spine pain conditions of all sorts. Exercise also allows the patient to take part in their healing. Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre incorporates exercise into the chiropractic treatment plan for all our Toronto patients to get them back to enjoying the quality of life they want.
Weak back muscles don’t allow fluid spinal motion in low back pain patients. Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre knows this isn’t good for our Toronto back pain patients! What makes these muscles weak? 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)
Researchers find that there is big payoff for doing a little exercise! Muscle strengthening activity done just two days a week reduces the odds of low back pain. (And this article, as a side note, suggests that smoking is also a powerful factor in the equation of whether you get back pain or not. It is better not to smoke.) (2) Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre presents simple exercises you can do in a short amount of time from the comfort of your own bedroom if you like! They’ll make a big impact. You’ll see!
Chronic nonspecific low back pain sufferers benefit from exercises like the lumbopelvic core stabilization exercises by positively affecting the pain perception by improving your pain threshold and reducing your pain intensity. (3) These exercises are not difficult, but they do work. Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre will share them with you so you can feel the most possible back pain relief. Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre is with you, our Toronto back pain patient, throughout your whole course of healing with as much support as you need.
Back school is an additional such support. Back school and manipulation/mobilization are standards of care for working with chronic nonspecific low back pain. These two approaches are suggested over many other types of care. (4) Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre 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 added to the overall back pain rehabilitation plan. How? Back school fosters self-management, gives control back to the patient to help him/herself. (5) Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre strives to educate our back pain patients as to how and why their backs hurt and how to prevent or at least diminish the chances of future occurrences. One study of just how well back school is received by back pain patients is a study of those who attended a back school at a chiropractor’s office. Back pain patients reported 95% satisfaction with going to the class, and 100% said it was worth the doctor’s time to present it. (6) Toronto chiropractic patients at Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre are some of the wisest and knowledgeable spine-informed people around!
Schedule a Toronto chiropractic appointment today. You’ll be well on your way to back pain relief. You can expect much at your first visit! Your chiropractic appointment will give you a firm grasp of what caused your pain and how you might avoid its aggravation in the future with exercise.
