Glute Strengthening Plus Chiropractic Eases Back Pain
Patient to the chiropractor: “Treat me so I don’t hurt.”
Chiropractor: “Be sure to do your exercises, so you won’t hurt.”
Chiropractors like your Oxford chiropractor at Satterwhite Chiropractic ponder how to get back pain patients to do recommended exercises. After all, these exercises help back pain sufferers get stronger plus decrease and prevent back pain! The back muscles and gluteus muscles and hamstrings get greater. Patients ponder why the chiropractor suggests exercises when all they desired was for the chiropractor to resolve the back pain problem. What a quandary! Both the Oxford chiropractor and Oxford chiropractic patient have the same goal - pain relief – but their beliefs, experiences and expectations vary. (1) That’s how it is. Research documents this. Clinical experience reveals this. When patients admit this and their chiropractors admit this, everyone then works together to relieve Oxford back pain, prevent future pain, and strengthen muscle. Let’s do that!
EXERCISE GUIDELINES TO LESSEN AND PREVENT BACK PAIN AND NECK PAIN
Guidelines for how to manage back pain and neck pain are published. Exercise is among the recommendations for the non-invasive pharmacological and non-pharmacological therapies for treating acute and chronic low back pain and neck pain both devoid of serious pathology and with radiculopathy. Spinal manipulation and manual therapy are also among these guidelines by the Global Spine Care Initiative. (2) Satterwhite Chiropractic pays attention to these in caring for Oxford back pain.
BACK PAIN BENEFITS FROM STRONG GLUTEAL MUSCLES
Patients with low back pain tend to be less active. Pain influences that decision. Low back pain patients fear that activity may cause pain, resulting in weakened muscles like the gluteus maximus. Prolonged immobilization or inactivity prevents use of these muscles. In low back pain patients, a weak gluteus maximus is common. Researchers write that the gluteus maximus cross-sectional area is decreased in low back pain sufferers, particularly for women. (3) For Oxford chiropractic back pain patients feeling constant lumbopelvic pain and test positive for sacroiliac joint dysfunction, doing gluteus maximus strengthening exercises is beneficial. Patients who did exercise found a decrease in pain and an increase in gluteus maximum strength and function. (4) Performing both - exercise to strengthening the gluteus maximus muscles and lumbar segmental stabilization exercise – reduced low back pain disability significantly more and improved lumbar spine muscle strength and balance better than just lumbar segmental stabilization exercise by itself. (5) To activate the gluteus maximus muscles, erector spinae and hamstrings more intentionally during exercise, researchers came up with a unique laser pointer system that permitted the exercise participants to visualize their muscle usage. This improved their form. (6) Let your Oxford chiropractor be your laser pointer! Follow advised tips for how to exercise the right way.
CONTACT Satterwhite Chiropractic
Schedule your Oxford chiropractic appointment to arrange a treatment plan that includes your Oxford chiropractor treating as well as your exercising to build up muscles. When the Oxford chiropractor and the Oxford chiropractic patient both “get” each other, Oxford back pain is history!
