Toronto Chiropractic Exercise Recommendation Benefits for Sleep and Back Pain
Exercise. Toronto back pain sufferers hear the recommendation to exercise often. Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre recommends it, too. Exercise continues to show its benefit for relief of low back pain and its prevention…and a new report reveals benefit for improved sleep quality!
EXERCISE FOR RELIEF OF THE BURDEN OF LOW BACK PAIN
Low back pain is a burden for the low back pain sufferer, the family, the community, and the healthcare system. Healthcare providers and researchers investigate proposed long-term methods to reduce this problem for whose sufferers’ disability continues. Exercise tops the list of non-invasive, non-drug general recommendations with manual therapy and massage in that list as well. (1) Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre offers itself as the Toronto back pain specialty clinic that many back pain sufferers visit.
BACK PAIN SPECIALIST’S PLAN FOR BACK PAIN RELIEF ADDS EXERCISE
Countless chronic back pain sufferers find themselves going to their primary care practitioners first. It’s a pretty standard routing. Primary care recommendations for chronic low back pain care typically involve exercise, oral prescriptions of NSAIDs and SNRI’s like duloxetine. In research, there is a curious statistic called “number to treat” which denotes the number of patients with a certain condition who need to undergo the treatment recommendation for 1 of the treatment recipients to report benefit. In this new study, the number to treat for 1 chronic low back pain patient to report benefit from exercise was 7, from NSAIDs 6, and SNRIs 10. Of these 3 options, exercise was the only intervention that demonstrated sustained chronic low back pain relief after the intervention ended and up to 48 weeks later. (2) Exercise is a valued, self-management, non-drug option for chronic low back pain patients. Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre always incorporates it in the Toronto chiropractic treatment plan. Exercise puts some control of chronic low back pain in our Toronto chiropractic patients’ hands.
WHAT ABOUT SLEEP AND EXERCISE?
An additional advantageous patient-controlled option is sleep-and-exercise. Lack of sleep – time and/or quality – is a problem for so many Toronto chiropractic patients. Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre often hears our patients talk about sleep difficulties. Sleep is renewing for the body and the mind. Exercise is often prescribed to address sleep and mood issues. An interesting study about the relationship between sleep and exercise highlights some interesting findings in young women and men. Each is different! Men who exercised more often reported falling asleep quicker, less daytime trouble, and less depressive mood. Women who exercised more frequently went to bed early, experienced better sleep quality, and reported more benefit from sleep, less depressive mood, and less anger. (3) Regular exercise is important for so many concerns!
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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Pamela Aaron on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as she shares a case of a young female patient with low back pain and her treatment with the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management plus strengthening exercise that improved her condition.
Make your Toronto chiropractic appointment today. “Exercise.” It is a recommendation Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre will keep sharing for back pain relief and prevention as well as improved sleep.
