Sitka Chiropractic Exercise Recommendation Benefits for Sleep and Back Pain
Exercise. Sitka back pain sufferers hear the recommendation to exercise often. Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka recommends it, also. Exercise continues to show its benefit for relief of low back pain and its prevention…and a new report shows benefit for improved sleep quality!
EXERCISE FOR RELIEF OF THE BURDEN OF LOW BACK PAIN
Low back pain is a problem for the low back pain sufferer, the family, the community, and the healthcare system. Healthcare providers and researchers examine proposed long-term ways to decrease this problem for whose sufferers’ disability continues. Exercise tops the list of non-invasive, non-drug general recommendations with manual therapy and massage in that list as well. (1) Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka offers itself as the Sitka back pain specialty clinic to which many back pain sufferers go.
BACK PAIN SPECIALIST’S PLAN FOR BACK PAIN RELIEF ADDS EXERCISE
Many chronic back pain sufferers take themselves to their primary care practitioners first. it is a pretty normal experience. Primary care recommendations for chronic low back pain care typically involve exercise, oral prescriptions of NSAIDs and SNRI’s like duloxetine. In research, there is an interesting statistic called “number to treat” which implies the number of patients with a certain condition who need to go through the treatment recommendation for 1 of them to report benefit. In this recent study, the number to treat for 1 chronic low back pain patient to report benefit from exercise was 7, from NSAIDs 6, and SNRIs 10. Of these 3 options, exercise was the only intervention that showed continued chronic low back pain relief after the intervention ended and up to 48 weeks later. (2) Exercise is a useful, self-management, non-drug option for chronic low back pain patients. Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka always incorporates it in the Sitka chiropractic treatment plan. Exercise puts some control of chronic low back pain in our Sitka chiropractic patients’ hands.
WHAT ABOUT SLEEP AND EXERCISE?
An additional beneficial patient-controlled alternative is sleep-and-exercise. Lack of sleep – time and/or quality – is a problem for so many Sitka chiropractic patients. Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka often hears our patients bring up sleep difficulties. Sleep is rejuvenating for the body and the mind. Exercise is often prescribed to address sleep and mood issues. An interesting study about the relationship between sleep and exercise highlights some interesting findings in young men and women. There are differences for each! Men who exercised more frequently reported falling asleep quicker, less daytime issues, and less depressive mood. Women who exercised more often went to bed early, had improved sleep quality, and described more benefit from sleep, less depressive mood, and less anger. (3) Regular exercise is key for so many issues!
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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Pamela Aaron on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as she shares a case of a young lady with low back pain and her treatment with the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management and strengthening exercise that helped.
Set up your Sitka chiropractic appointment now. “Exercise.” It is a recommendation Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka will keep sharing for back pain relief and prevention in addition to sleep improvement.
