Exercise is effective and helpful. Exercise is integral to the chiropractic care plan for spine pain issues of types. Patients get to be a part of their own care and healing when they do their exercises. Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office incorporates exercise into the chiropractic treatment plan for all our Groton 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. Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office doesn’t consider this helpful at all! 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! Patients who did just 2 days of muscle strengthening a week lowered the risk for low back pain. (And this article, as a side note, shares that smoking is also a powerful factor in your risk of getting back pain. It is better not to smoke.) (2) Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office presents simple exercises you can do in just a few minutes from the comfort of your own home if you like! They’ll make a big impact. You’ll see!
Chronic nonspecific low back pain sufferers gain from exercises like the lumbopelvic core stabilization exercises by positively affecting the pain perception by increasing your pain threshold and reducing your pain intensity. (3) Such exercises aren’t tough; they’re just effective! Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office will share them with you so you can feel the most possible back pain relief. Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office is with you, our Groton back pain patient, through your healing process with as much support as you need.
Back school is another such support. Back school and manipulation/mobilization are standards of care for working with chronic nonspecific low back pain. These two approaches are recommended over many other approaches. (4) Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office uses spinal manipulation in the form of Cox Technic, a chiropractic evidence based system of spine care.
Adding back school to the chiropractic treatment plan enriches the positives of back pain rehabilitation. How? Back school nurtures self-management, gives control back to the patient to take care of him/herself. (5) Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office attempts to educate our back pain patients as to how and why their backs hurt and how to avoid or at least minimize future occurrences. A survey of patients who attended a back school in a chiropractor’s office showed 95% satisfaction with having attended the course and 100% support of the doctor’s giving it. (6) Groton chiropractic patients at Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office are some of the wisest and knowledgeable spine-informed people around!
Schedule a Groton chiropractic appointment today. It is the natural next step in your journey to back pain relief. You can expect much at your first visit! Your chiropractic appointment will give you a clear understanding of what caused your pain and how you are able to contribute to its not disturbing you much in the future with exercise.
