Back pain - nonspecific or chronic or subacute – can be
helped with exercise. Our La Grande back pain patients
realize from day 1 that exercise
is within their ability. We share
how to do simple, effective ones that will help
you feel some control over your pain.
Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC is your La Grande 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 are many exercise options available
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 proved
better than stabilization exercises regarding proprioception,
balance, muscle (transverse abdoiminis, lumbar multifidus) thickness, reducing
patients’ fear of movement, and functional disability. (1) Another study reported
core stabilization exercise to reduce pain, enhance
function, and boost core strength in nonspecific low back pain
patients. (2) Spine stabilization exercises and flexion exercises done24
daily equally increased 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
Regardless of 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 found 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 along with hip muscle strengthening effectively enhanced
physical activity and function for nonspecific low back pain patients. (5) La Grande
back pain patients wanting some pain relief are encouraged
to do exercises as part of an
overall chiropractic treatment plan.
EXERCISE WITH SPINAL MANIPULATION
Combining efforts offers additional 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 described that flexion
distraction spinal manipulation along with rehab exercise
(in this case: bird dog and core stabilization) got relief and improvement.
(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 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) Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC thoroughly
examines and determines the gentlest treatment technique for
you.
CONTACT Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC
Listen to this PODCAST
with Dr. Kurt Olding on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson
as he shares how the many spine care choices may
be overwhelming as well as the
benefit of the gentle care via The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain
Management that relieves back pain.
Schedule your La Grande chiropractic
appointment soon. No matter the back pain source
or condition, bring it to Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC. We’ll find a way
forward together!