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Ashburn Back Pain Relief Helped by Exercise

Back pain - nonspecific or chronic or subacute – can be helped with exercise. Our Ashburn back pain patients know from day 1 that they can exercise safely and gently. We show how to do easy, effective ones that will allow you some control over your pain. Poulin Chiropractic of Herndon and Ashburn is your Ashburn exercise coach as well as your spinal manipulation chiropractor: the best of both realms!

EXERCISE EFFICACY FOR LOW BACK PAIN

Low back pain patients do well with therapeutic exercise in strengthening trunk muscles and enhancing spine stability. There is a variety of exercise options obtainable from core stabilization and strengthening to motor control exercises and muscle strengthening. In one study of subacute nonspecific low back pain sufferers, core stabilization exercises were better than stabilization exercises regarding 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 done24 daily equally helped multifidus muscle thickness in patients with chronic low back pain and spondylolisthesis. (3) Advice: Choose one that you like 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 know what causes our pain!), exercise offers hope of its management. A new study reported that exercise training in-person and via multimedia/video were good for training back pain patients to correctly perform the more complex motor control exercises. (4) Core exercises with the addition of hip muscle strengthening effectively improved physical activity and function for nonspecific low back pain patients. (5) Ashburn back pain patients seeking some pain relief are encouraged to do exercises as part of an overall chiropractic treatment plan.

EXERCISE WITH SPINAL MANIPULATION

Combining efforts proposes 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 rehabilitative exercise (in this case: bird dog and core stabilization) found relief and recovery. (6) In caring for back pain in patients who have undergone back surgery (laminectomy, fusion, discectomy) like the above patient did, clinicians using spinal manipulation are inclined to using gentler non-manual-thrust spinal manipulation while chiropractors leaned toward using manual thrust. Spinal manipulation was applied less than 12 months 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) Poulin Chiropractic of Herndon and Ashburn carefully examines and determines the gentlest treatment technique for your spine.

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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Kurt Olding on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he describes how the many spine care options 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 alleviates back pain.

Schedule your Ashburn chiropractic appointment now. No matter the back pain source or condition, bring it to Poulin Chiropractic of Herndon and Ashburn. We will find a path forward together!

 
Poulin Chiropractic of Herndon and Ashburn suggests exercise for Ashburn low back pain relief 
 
 
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