Sitka Back Pain Relief Helped by Walking 90 Minutes Weekly
Just walk! It’s simple. It’s economical. It’s useful. Walking is an amazing means to get healthy and remain healthy. Walking is a great way to find relief from chronic pain and back pain. Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka's Sitka chiropractic back pain specialist often suggests walking as one of the first activities to try to Sitka back pain patients. Here’s why…
WALK MORE. SIT LESS.
It may seem strange when Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka asks about your sitting habits when you come in for Sitka back pain treatment and relief, but it is not! It’s well known and now even supported by research that sitting for longer periods of time is a risk factor for low back pain. The new research goes even further to point out that longer sitting and low physical activity increases low back pain risk even more. (1) Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka’s curiosity about your sitting habits is logical! Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka’s recommendation to walk is, too.
Sitka WALKING BENEFITS
Sitka walking is advantageous for Sitka back pain relief as well as the back pain relieving Sitka chiropractic care at Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka! Walking is helpful for chronic musculoskeletal pain sufferers like those with low back pain, fibromyalgia and osteoarthritis. Walking is a helpful type of exercise for chronic pain relief and is related to significant improvements in pain and function. (2) Exercise and physical activities like muscle strengthening and aerobic exercise have lots of backing for effectively dealing with low back pain. Weekly walking is gaining more and more approval to be included on this list of effective exercises. For over-50 year olds, weekly walking of 90 minutes a week reduces the risk of low back pain. Longer walking sessions are ostensibly better. Routine walking with longer duration for more than 3 days a week is significantly associated with lower low back pain risk. (3) Excitingly, a walking program is research-documented to offer the lowest costs and the best chance of continuing to do it by back pain patients. (4) Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka understands that our Sitka chiropractic patients will like that balance!
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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Amanda Harris on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson about how well Cox® Technic assisted a spinal stenosis back pain patient return to walking and begin again to enjoy.
Schedule a Sitka chiropractic appointment now. Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka gets that Sitka back pain sufferers desire pain relief. The recommendation of “just walk” may be the right one for you! Walking is simple, cheap, and on your own schedule!
