Sitka Back Pain Relief with Paraspinal Muscle Health

July 30, 2019

Paraspinal muscles? Where are those? These muscles align the spine. They hold up the spine and allow it to move. And their health counts. Their health contributes to your posture, your back pain condition, and your ability to move your spine as you must and desire.  Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka proposes exercises as part of the chiropractic treatment plan to strengthen and maintain the strength of these important paraspinal muscles in the control of Sitka back pain and relief of back pain.

HOW DOES EXERCISE HELP PARASPINAL MUSCLES IN BACK PAIN?

The spine’s paraspinal muscles are the action muscles of the spine. They surround your whole spine. They reposition your spine. Also known as the erector spinae, paraspinal muscles allow you to lean, bend, twist, and arch your back. Their ability to do their job is linked to the health of their neighboring tissues. A new study recorded that damage to the spine’s vertebral bones’ endplates is a part of chronic low back pain. Endplate damage and chronic low back pain patients’ symptoms are reported to depend on paraspinal muscle quality. Attempts to strengthen the paraspinal muscles can be positive. (1) Sometimes finding the right exercise for you is key.

EXERCISE CAN HELP PARASPINAL MUSCLES FOR MOST Sitka BACK PAIN SUFFERERS

Exercise is recommended to address two issues affecting Sitka low back pain: fatty infiltration of muscles and muscle weakness. In another new study, high-intensity exercise didn’t change these two concerns for all participants. However, for those who did show improvement in fat content and weakness, functional improvement resulted. (2) At least most of us can exercise to develop our backs’ paraspinal muscles.  Astronauts can’t! Their paraspinal and quadratus lumborum muscles were still poor 2 to 4 years after their space flight. Researchers surmise that these changes added to the back pain astronauts suffer. (3) Sitka does not have many astronauts in its population, so Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka will help you figure out the proper form of exercise – be it high intensity or other such exercise – for your optimal improvement of Sitka back pain.  

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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Hamisi Kote Ali on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson who shares how treatment of paraspinal muscles via fascia manipulation goes hand-in-hand with spinal manipulation treatment utilizing gentle Cox® Technic to deal with spine-related pain.

Schedule a Sitka chiropractic appointment with Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka today. Together, we will determine the strength or lack thereof of your paraspinal muscles, your erector spinae muscles, and determine the specific exercises to strengthen them for your spine’s most favorable alignment and movement.

Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka describes the importance of paraspinal muscles and their strength for Sitka back pain relief.