Latest News in Gentle Toronto Exercise for Chronic Low Back Pain Relief
Chronic low back pain (CLBP) slows life down for its sufferers. Toronto chronic low back pain sufferers want their lives back. Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre offers a chiropractic treatment plan with options that do exactly that. The treatment plan often includes chiropractic spinal manipulation like Cox® Technic as well as gentle exercise and nutrition. A few new insights about effective exercise interventions are shared here for our Toronto back pain patients’ consideration as it’s up to you to select what exercise suits you!
WALKING AND MIND-BODY THERAPIES: Gentle Exercise Options
Walking works, so do mind-body therapies like yoga. An analysis of 31 randomized control trials of 3193 participants, walking was found to be as effective as control interventions for short term relief of chronic low back pain and slightly superior for intermediate term pain relief and activity limitation improvement while yoga was more beneficial for pain and activity limitation improvement in the short term. Doing both yoga and walking was proposed as a beneficial combination for CLBP patients. (1) In an analysis of 18 randomized controlled trials, yoga reportedly decreased pain in the short to intermediate term and to improve functional disability from short to long term when compared with non-exercise, usual care, and education. But it had similar effects on pain and disability as other exercise modes or physical therapy. (2) Most everyone can walk. Some like physical therapy exercise. Most can perform yoga if they so desire. Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre understands that not every exercise option may be our Toronto back pain sufferer’s "cup of tea”! Options are essential to participation...and Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre has them!
MOTOR CONTROL EXERCISES
One group of researchers wrote that present evidence doesn’t suggest that any single form of exercise is superior to any other for back pain relief. That is interesting! They did report that exercise is modestly effective treatment for CLBP, a significant health and socioeconomic issue (cost, disability, missed work). The most common type of exercise for back pain relief was reported to be motor control exercise working on the deep muscles and their coordination. Supposedly not superior to other forms of exercise, motor control exercise should be an option for chronic low back pain patients among other types of exercise. The researchers indicated that the choice should be up to the patient and his/her doctor/therapist as to what works. (3) Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre talks with each Toronto back pain sufferer to find out what exercise will work and will be done. That is the key!
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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Benjamin Fonke on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he describes the value of exercise incorporation into The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.
Set up your Toronto chiropractic appointment today. When chronic low back pain has slowed your life down, Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre’s chiropractic treatment plan with Cox® Technic and exercise that you will do can get your life’s pace back to speed.
