Back pain - nonspecific or chronic or subacute – can benefit from exercise. Our Pensacola back pain patients
realize from day 1 that they can exercise safely and gently. We share
how to do easy, helpful ones that will allow you some control over your situation.
Pensacola Spinal Rehab Center is your Pensacola exercise coach as well as your
spinal manipulation
chiropractor: the best of both worlds!
EXERCISE EFFICACY FOR LOW BACK PAIN
Low back pain patients do well with
therapeutic exercise in strengthening trunk muscles and increasing
spine stability. There is a variety of exercise options available
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 showed that they were
better than stabilization exercises in terms of proprioception,
balance, muscle (transverse abdoiminis, lumbar multifidus) thickness, decreasing
patients’ fear of movement, and functional disability. (1) Another study reported
core stabilization exercise to decrease pain, enhance
function, and increase core strength in nonspecific low back pain
patients. (2) Spine stabilization exercises and flexion exercises performed24
daily equally increased multifidus muscle
thickness in patients with chronic low back pain and spondylolisthesis. (3) Advice: Pick
one that you are most likely 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 that may frustrate you (We all want to understand
what lies below our pain!), exercise offers hope of its
management. A recent study found that exercise
training in-person and via multimedia/video were good for
training back pain patients to correctly do
the more complex motor control exercises. (4) Core exercises along with hip muscle strengthening effectively improved
physical activity and function for nonspecific low back pain patients. (5) Pensacola
back pain patients desiring some pain relief are encouraged
to perform exercises as part of their
overall chiropractic treatment plan.
EXERCISE WITH SPINAL MANIPULATION
Combining efforts offers additional hope for back pain patients despite the diagnosis.
One case report of a 24-year-old patient with a recurrent disc herniation and
pain after back surgery laminectomy shared that flexion
distraction spinal manipulation along with rehab exercise
(in this case: bird dog and core stabilization) found relief and recovery.
(6) Managing back pain in patients who have undergone
back surgery (laminectomy, fusion, discectomy) like the above patient did, clinicians receiving spinal
manipulation are inclined to 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 had persistent back pain after spine surgery. (7) Pensacola Spinal Rehab Center thoroughly
examines and decides the gentlest treatment technique for
your spine.
CONTACT Pensacola Spinal Rehab Center
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 choices may
be a bit much to find your way through as well as the
benefit of the gentle care via The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain
Management that relieves back pain.
Make your Pensacola chiropractic
appointment now. No matter the back pain source
or condition, bring it to Pensacola Spinal Rehab Center. We’ll find a path
forward together!