Wake Up Your Multifidus Muscles: A Path to Chronic Back Pain Relief
Dealing with chronic low back pain every single day? There's hope: those deep multifidus muscles supporting your spine may simply need the right care to function properly again. Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre can help with your back pain relief! Recent research shows that targeting these specific muscles could finally give you, our Toronto chiropractic patient, the relief you've been searching for.
MEET YOUR SPINE'S UNSUNG HEROES
Your multifidus muscles work as deep stabilizers, anchoring and protecting each vertebra throughout your day. When they're strong and firing properly, they keep your spine stable and protected. But chronic pain often weakens these muscles and interrupts their function—trapping you in a cycle where pain leads to weakness, and weakness fuels more pain. A 2025 comprehensive review by Abd-Elsayed and colleagues confirms what many chiropractors like yours at Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre have observed (1): multifidus dysfunction plays a major role in chronic low back pain, and the evidence for treating it directly is growing stronger.
TWO PROVEN APPROACHES WORTH TRYING
Ask us about intramuscular electrical stimulation—it's a breakthrough for many patients. Kużdżał and team's randomized controlled trial showed that this targeted therapy significantly boosted both pain levels and function in chronic back pain patients. (2) By directly initiating weakened multifidus muscles, it helps rebuild the strength and coordination your spine needs to function properly.
Don't forget the potential of specific exercises, either. Wongcharoen and colleagues found that core stabilization exercises—think controlled pelvic tilts, bridges, and abdominal bracing that activate your deep spinal muscles while keeping your spine in neutral alignment—delivered substantial pain reduction when performed regularly. (3) These aren't your typical gym exercises; they're precisely created movements that retrain your multifidus muscles to support you all the day through.
TAKE ACTION NOW AND CONTACT Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre
Stop accepting chronic back pain as your new normal. Ask your chiropractor at Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre about multifidus-focused treatment options at your next visit. Whether through electrical stimulation, targeted exercise protocols, or hands-on techniques with our gentle Cox® Technic flexion distraction decompression spinal manipulation, focusing on these crucial muscles could change your pain experience.
