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 simple, helpful ones that will help
you feel some control over your situation.
Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre is your Toronto exercise coach as well as your
chiropractor who delivers spinal manipulation: the best of both realms!
EXERCISE EFFICACY FOR LOW BACK PAIN
Low back pain patients get results with
therapeutic exercise in strengthening trunk muscles and increasing
spine stability. There are many exercise options available
from core stabilization and strengthening to motor control exercises and muscle
strengthening. In a study of subacute nonspecific low back pain
sufferers, core stabilization exercises proved
better than stabilization exercises in terms of proprioception,
balance, muscle (transverse abdoiminis, lumbar multifidus) thickness, reducing
patients’ fear of movement, and functional disability. (1) Another study stated
core stabilization exercise to decrease pain, improve
function, and boost core strength in nonspecific low back pain
patients. (2) Spine stabilization exercises and flexion exercises performed24
daily both increased multifidus muscle
thickness in patients with chronic low back pain and spondylolisthesis. (3) Advice: Pick
one that you are most likely 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 know what causes our pain!), exercise offers hope of its
management. A new study reported 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 perform exercises as part of an
overall chiropractic treatment plan.
EXERCISE WITH SPINAL MANIPULATION
Combining efforts proposes even
more hope for back pain patients despite the 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 rehabilitative 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 are inclined to using gentler non-manual-thrust
spinal manipulation while chiropractors tended to use
manual thrust. Spinal manipulation was applied 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 carefully
examines and determines the gentlest treatment technique for
your spine.
CONTACT Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre
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 choices may
be overwhelming as well as the
benefit of the gentle care via The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain
Management that eases 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 find a way
forward together!