Groton Chiropractic Back Pain Relief Benefits from Routine Exercise
Independence. It is a worthy quality. Sometimes. When it comes to exercise, accepting a little guidance more often is better. Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office is equipped to be your guide! Groton back pain sufferers can rely on Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office to assemble, demonstrate and supervise a pain-relieving exercise routine specially for you!
BENEFIT OF SUPERVISED EXERCISE
Research shows that supervised exercise therapy begets significant symptom relief and improved quality of life for patients with intermittent claudication by boosting maximal walking distance in just three months. Sadly, it is underutilized. Home based exercise therapy with observation devices like a pedometer or logbook and walking are other helpful alternatives to supervised exercise, allowing a bit more of the desired independence. (1) Groton back pain patients may benefit in the same manner these back pain sufferers do. Spinal stenosis back pain patients would value walking more like that!
MORE REGULAR SUPERVISED SESSIONS BENEFICIAL
A recent study reports that supervised physical therapy for lumbar spinal stenosis patients delivered significant short-term improvements in symptom severity, walking distance, pain, physical activity and function compared with unsupervised. (2) A follow-up study compared a more specific schedule of supervised physical therapy visits – twice a week and one time a week - to home exercise. It states specifically that 6 weeks of supervised physical therapy twice weekly for lumbar spinal stenosis patients allowed significant short term improvements in the severity of symptoms, physical function, back and leg pain and gait disturbance compared with one time a week PT visits and home exercise exclusively. (3) Our Groton back pain patients would welcome all these improvements, no doubt!
EXERCISE AS PART OF AN OVERALL BACK PAIN RELIEF TREATMENT PLAN
Improvement is the goal in managing back pain. Independence only gets you so far when your back is hurting. There is always a tipping point when the pain just can’t be put up with any longer! Then a trip to the doctor is planned. Many articles are written about how the doctor seen first often sets the course for subsequent care. (That was the topic of another blog!) Concerning exercise and physical therapy for back pain, though, these are conservative management forms that are often too infrequently used while opioid prescriptions are very common in the year before elective lumbar spine surgery: 84.4% opioid prescription and 14.6% minimum of 6 exercise therapy sessions. (4) Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office is honored to partner with you for back pain relief. Your Groton chiropractor is a well-trained Groton back pain specialist whose treatment plan includes the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management and exercise.
CONTACT Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office
Schedule your Groton chiropractic visit with Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office today. Together, we will set up a comprehensive treatment plan for you that will allow a nice balance of independence and supervision for best Groton back pain relief.
