Intermittent claudication and sciatics are leg pains having many originations such as disc herniation and spinal stenosis. Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office’s chiropractic care offers a distinct treatment plan to ease your leg pain, but we’ll also discuss the critical role of exercise to relieve and control your leg pain. We’re a team with the same goal: pain relief and prevention!

Sciatica – Leg Pain Due to Disc Herniation

Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office knows you won’t believe it, but exercising when you hurt helps. It really does! In patients with leg pain due to a disc herniation, researchers find that patients who exercise get more strength and flexibility and give accounts of less pain. (1) Really!

Now, one study submits isometric exercise – exercising against resistance - at day 14 after the onset of leg pain. (1) Don’t be surprised if Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office gets you started sooner with exercise. This passes some of the control to you. (Certainly, don’t do any exercise until we talk!) But you can help yourself, and we want you to do that. Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office is here as your teammate in healing as well as combating future back pain as well as related leg pain. It’s your body and back ultimately!

Intermittent Claudication – Leg Pain Due to Peripheral Artery Disease or Spinal Stenosis 

Intermittent claudication cramps not just your legs, but also your Groton lifestyle! To improve walking, walking is recommended. We know, it’s obvious, but it works. But resistance training and weight lifting may also help sharpen walking. (2) The objective of these exercise options is the same: get the blood flowing!

Oh how often we hear that at Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office! We identify with that and sympathize. However, we have a recommendation, a research-based suggestion no less! If you are in too much pain, exercising in the water. Researchers note that water exercise is less stressful on muscles. Not too surprising, but they documented it! So get going with aquatic back exercises and move to land as you feel less pain and strengthen your muscles. (3) Check out the Groton pools near you. You’ll be glad you did!

Review these reference articles about the advantage of exercise for leg pain relief. Chat with Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office about the exercises appropriate for you, then try some water-based exercise and build up to doing them on land or the exercise ball.

We can't wait to see your progress with Groton's chiropractic treatment and exercise!