Sitka Chiropractic Back Pain Relief Benefits from Regular Exercise
Independence. It’s an admirable quality. Sometimes. When it comes to exercise, getting a bit of guidance more often is better. Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka is ready to be your guide! Sitka back pain sufferers can count on Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka to assemble, demonstrate and supervise a pain-relieving exercise routine specially for you!
BENEFIT OF SUPERVISED EXERCISE
Research demonstrates that supervised exercise therapy allows significant symptom relief and bettered quality of life for patients with intermittent claudication by increasing maximal walking distance in just 90 days. Sadly, it is not put in to practice enough. Home based exercise therapy with observation devices like a pedometer or logbook and walking are other helpful alternatives to supervised exercise, allowing a bit more of the desired independence. (1) Sitka back pain patients may benefit just like these back pain patients. Spinal stenosis back pain patients would value walking more like that!
MORE FREQUENT SUPERVISED SESSIONS BENEFICIAL
A newer report states that supervised physical therapy for lumbar spinal stenosis patients delivered significant short-term improvements in symptom severity, walking distance, pain, physical activity and function compared with unsupervised. (2) A follow-up study compared a more specific schedule of supervised physical therapy visits – two times a week and once weekly - to home exercise. It reports specifically that 6 weeks of supervised physical therapy twice weekly for lumbar spinal stenosis patients allowed significant short term improvements in the severity of symptoms, physical function, back and leg pain and gait disturbance compared with once a week PT visits and home exercise exclusively. (3) Our Sitka back pain patients would embrace all these improvements, without a doubt!
EXERCISE AS PART OF AN OVERALL BACK PAIN RELIEF TREATMENT PLAN
Improvement is the goal in managing back pain. Independence only gets you so far when dealing with back pain. There is always a tipping point when the pain just can’t be dealt with any more! Then a trip to the doctor is planned. Many articles are written about how the doctor seen first often sets the course for subsequent care. (That was the topic of another blog!) Concerning exercise and physical therapy for back pain, though, these are conservative management forms that are often too rarely used while opioid prescriptions are very common in the year before elective lumbar spine surgery: 84.4% opioid prescription and 14.6% minimum of 6 exercise therapy visits. (4) Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka is honored to partner with you for back pain relief. Your Sitka chiropractor is a well-trained Sitka back pain specialist whose treatment plan incorporates the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management and exercise.
CONTACT Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka
Schedule your Sitka chiropractic visit with Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka today. Together, we’ll set up a thorough treatment plan for you that will allow a nice balance of independence and supervision for maximal Sitka back pain relief.
