Nashua Back Pain Relief Helped by Exercise

Back pain - nonspecific or chronic or subacute – can benefit from exercise. Our Nashua back pain patients realize from day 1 that they can exercise safely and gently. We share how to do easy, effective ones that will help you feel some control over your situation. Moriarty Chiropractic is your Nashua exercise coach as well as your spinal manipulation chiropractor: the best of both worlds!

EXERCISE EFFICACY FOR LOW BACK PAIN

Low back pain patients do well with therapeutic exercise in strengthening trunk muscles and increasing spine stability. There are many exercise options obtainable from core stabilization and strengthening to motor control exercises and muscle strengthening. In a 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 stated core stabilization exercise to lessen pain, enhance function, and increase core strength in nonspecific low back pain patients. (2) Spine stabilization exercises and flexion exercises performed24 daily both 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 thank you.

EXERCISE FOR NON-SPECIFIC LOW BACK PAIN

Regardless of a diagnosis of non-specific low back pain being frustrating (We all want to understand what lies below our pain!), exercise offers hope of its management. A recent study reported that exercise training in-person and via multimedia/video were effective in training back pain patients to properly do the more complex motor control exercises. (4) Core exercises along with hip muscle strengthening effectively enhanced physical activity and function for nonspecific low back pain patients. (5) Nashua back pain patients seeking some pain relief are urged to exercise as part of their overall chiropractic treatment plan.

EXERCISE WITH SPINAL MANIPULATION

Combining efforts offers even more hope for back pain patients regardless of 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 rehab exercise (in this case: bird dog and core stabilization) got relief and improvement. (6) Managing back pain in patients who have undergone back surgery (laminectomy, fusion, discectomy) like the patient described above did, clinicians using spinal manipulation are inclined to using gentler non-manual-thrust spinal manipulation while chiropractors tended to use manual thrust. Spinal manipulation was used less than a year after back surgery in 66% of cases in this study. Treating healthcare providers used spinal manipulation with 85% of patients who experienced persistent back pain after spine surgery.  (7) Moriarty Chiropractic thoroughly examines and determines the gentlest treatment technique for you.

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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 eases back pain.

Make your Nashua chiropractic appointment today. Whatever the back pain source or condition, bring it to Moriarty Chiropractic. [{We will|We’ll]61] find a path forward together!