Groton Back Pain Benefits from Walking and Chiropractic Care

Walk. Walk. Walk. Running may have been a ‘go to’ exercise when you were younger. Speed may have been a goal at one time. Distance may have been the aim. Today, walking 90 minutes a week is an excellent target for back pain sufferers seeking Groton back pain relief. Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office suggests walking along with chiropractic spinal manipulation for optimal walking ability and back pain relief.

EXERCISE FOR Groton BACK PAIN RELIEF

Exercise is normally recommended to back pain patients. Muscle strengthening and aerobic exercise are well documented to be effective for relief of low back pain. But what about walking? Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office encourages Groton back pain patients to not add the word “just” ahead of “walking”! Walking alone is an incredibly healing activity. Walking is basic to everyday life. Walking is something so many of us take for granted until we can not walk or something like back pain prevents us from walking like we used to. A recent study verifies this: Walking more than ninety minutes a week was associated with a lesser risk of self-reported low back pain in adults who are 50 years old and over. 90 minutes is not bad; regular walking for 30 minutes daily three days a week is ideal. (1) Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office suggests that our Groton chiropractic patients walk.

CHIROPRACTIC ENHANCES WALKING

Seeing a licensed chiropractor improves walking distance. A recent article discovered that an all-inclusive non-operative training which involved an exercise program guided by a chiropractor improved back and lower extremity fitness and lumbar spine flexibility, decreased pain and improved walking distance for lumbar spinal stenosis patients. (2) That is important! Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office uses gentle Cox® Technic spinal manipulation and promotes walking 3 times a week for 30 minutes each time. Having the ability to walk any distance for a half hour is valuable!

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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. William Davis on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson whose spinal stenosis patient struggled with walking inside the house let alone outside. He missed walking! Dr. Davis’ treatment plan helped him get back to walking.  

Schedule your Groton chiropractic appointment today. Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office wants our Groton back pain patients to walk and know that walking is good. Running and speed aren’t necessary for back health, but walking is necessary for back health and for quality of life!