February 2024 Healthy News from Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office Heart and Spine Benefit from Exercise and Sacroiliac Pain Benefits from Treatment
CHIROPRACTIC HELP FOR SACROILIAC PAIN
There is debate about whether the sacroiliac joint causes pain, be we won’t go deep into that, but our Groton back and leg pain sufferers may experience pain in the sacroiliac joint. Some medical approaches today fuse the sacroiliac joints, inject them, etc. (1,2,3) In the conservative realm, an analysis of how manual therapy may decrease and/or alleviate sacroiliac joint pain documented that manual therapy – though just which manual therapy technique is superior was not well defined in all the studies they read – statistically significantly enhanced disability due to sacroiliac joint dysfunction syndrome. (4) There’s always room for additional research! Another study contrasted the impact of manual therapy, exercise, and a combination of those two on sacroiliac pain dysfunction. All 3 groups were shown to have experienced a significant reduction in sacroiliac-associated pain. The researchers concluded that manual therapy was effective over the long term for sacroiliac joint pain reduction and that adding specific exercise to the sacroiliac joint manipulation treatment raised the effectiveness. (5) If we discover through our examination that sacroiliac pain is of consequence in your back pain condition, let’s ponder Groton chiropractic non-surgical manual therapy and [possibly even|maybe]70] a little exercise to deal with it!
Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Michael McMurray on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson about use of The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management that incorporates exercise.
Groton CHIROPRACTIC TIP OF THE MONTH: EXERCISE - GOOD FOR HEART…AND LOW BACK MUSCLE
Exercise is praised for its benefit for heart health, benefit which appears after a few weeks or month of exercise. Researchers are discussing that even single or short-term exercise sessions produce benefit! They tested this and found that short-term exercise-induced protection provided immediate cardiac protection (like reducing the magnitude of cardiac/vascular damage due to long-term ischemia) cheaply and easily. (6) We have a feeling that our exercise-adverse Groton chiropractic patients will like this! Just one exercise session may offer benefit. That’s a first step! And more advantages of exercise for low back pain sufferers are documented. A rehab exercise program for normal and overweight patients showed improvement in total cholesterol and low-density lipoprotein as well as improvement in cardiovascular risk and lumbar muscle. (7) Time to add exercise?
In this month of hearts (Happy belated Valentine’s Day), take care of your heart and spine! Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office is honored to be your Groton chiropractic partner in this project. See you soon!