La Grande Back Pain Relief Helped by Exercise
Back pain - nonspecific or chronic or subacute – can be helped with exercise. Our La Grande back pain patients know from day 1 that they can exercise safely and gently. We demonstrate how to do simple, helpful ones that will help you feel some control over your pain. Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC is your La Grande exercise coach as well as your spinal manipulation chiropractor: the best of both realms!
EXERCISE EFFICACY FOR LOW BACK PAIN
Low back pain patients do well with therapeutic exercise in strengthening trunk muscles and increasing spine stability. There are many exercise options obtainable from core stabilization and strengthening to motor control exercises and muscle strengthening. In a study of subacute nonspecific low back pain sufferers, core stabilization exercises proved better than stabilization exercises regarding proprioception, balance, muscle (transverse abdoiminis, lumbar multifidus) thickness, reducing patients’ fear of movement, and functional disability. (1) Another study reported core stabilization exercise to reduce pain, improve function, and boost core strength in nonspecific low back pain patients. (2) Spine stabilization exercises and flexion exercises done24 daily equally increased multifidus muscle thickness in patients with chronic low back pain and spondylolisthesis . (3) Advice: Pick one that you like to do (after we discuss it!)! Your back pain will appreciate it.
EXERCISE FOR NON-SPECIFIC LOW BACK PAIN
Despite a diagnosis of non-specific low back pain being frustrating (We all want to understand what lies below our pain!), exercise offers hope of its management. A recent study reported that exercise training in-person and via multimedia/video were good for training back pain patients to properly perform the more complex motor control exercises. (4) Core exercises with the addition of hip muscle strengthening effectively improved physical activity and function for nonspecific low back pain patients. (5) La Grande back pain patients wanting some pain relief are encouraged to exercise as part of an overall chiropractic treatment plan.
EXERCISE WITH SPINAL MANIPULATION
Combining efforts offers additional hope for back pain patients regardless of diagnosis. One case report of a 24-year-old patient with a recurrent disc herniation and pain after back surgery laminectomy described that flexion distraction spinal manipulation along with rehab exercise (in this case: bird dog and core stabilization) found relief and improvement. (6) Managing back pain in patients who have already had back surgery (laminectomy, fusion, discectomy) like the above patient did, clinicians using spinal manipulation tend toward using gentler non-manual-thrust spinal manipulation while chiropractors tended to use manual thrust. Spinal manipulation was used less than a year after back surgery in 66% of cases in this study. Treating healthcare providers used spinal manipulation with 85% of patients who experienced persistent back pain after spine surgery. (7) Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC thoroughly examines and decides the gentlest treatment technique for your spine.
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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Kurt Olding on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he shares how the many spine care options may be overwhelming as well as the benefit of the gentle care via The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management that relieves back pain.
Make your La Grande chiropractic appointment today. Whatever the back pain source or condition, bring it to Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC. [{We will|We’ll]61] find a path forward together!
