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Ashburn Back Pain Relief with Paraspinal Muscle Health

Paraspinal muscles? Where are they? These muscles align the spine. They hold up the spine and permit it to move. And their health matters. Their health play a role in your posture, your back pain condition, and your ability to move your spine as you need and want.  Poulin Chiropractic of Herndon and Ashburn advocates exercises as part of the chiropractic treatment plan to strengthen and maintain the strength of these critical paraspinal muscles in the control of Ashburn back pain and relief of back pain.

HOW DOES EXERCISE HELP PARASPINAL MUSCLES IN BACK PAIN?

The paraspinal muscles of the back are the action muscles of the spine. They run up and down your whole spine. They reposition your spine. Otherwise known as the erector spinae, paraspinal muscles allow you to lean, bend, twist, and arch your back. Their ability to do what they do is connected to the health of their neighboring tissues. A recent 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 beneficial. (1) Sometimes finding the right exercise for you is key.

EXERCISE CAN HELP PARASPINAL MUSCLES FOR MOST Ashburn BACK PAIN SUFFERERS

Fatty infiltration of muscles affects Ashburn low back pain. Muscle weakness affects low back pain. Exercise is suggested. In another recent study, high-intensity exercise did not alter these two concerns for all participants. However, for those who did show improvement in fat content and weakness, functional improvement followed. (2) At least most of us can exercise to help our backs’ paraspinal muscles.  Astronauts can’t! Their paraspinal and quadratus lumborum muscles were still weak 2 to 4 years after their returning from space. Researchers speculate that these changes contributed to the back pain astronauts experience. (3) Ashburn does not have many astronauts in its population, so Poulin Chiropractic of Herndon and Ashburn will help you figure out the proper form of exercise – be it high intensity or other type of exercise – for your best improvement of Ashburn 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 manage spine-related pain.

Schedule a Ashburn chiropractic appointment with Poulin Chiropractic of Herndon and Ashburn today. Together, we will establish the strength or lack thereof of your paraspinal muscles, your erector spinae muscles, and come up with the specific exercises to strengthen them for your spine’s optimal alignment and movement.

Poulin Chiropractic of Herndon and Ashburn describes the importance of paraspinal muscles and their strength for Ashburn back pain relief.

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