Oxford Chiropractic Back Pain Relief Benefits from Routine Exercise
Independence. It’s a worthy quality. Most of the time. When it comes to exercise, seeking some guidance more often is better. Satterwhite Chiropractic is ready to be your guide! Oxford back pain sufferers can count on Satterwhite Chiropractic to assemble, demonstrate and supervise a pain-relieving exercise routine just for you!
BENEFIT OF SUPERVISED EXERCISE
Research demonstrates that supervised exercise therapy allows significant symptom relief and bettered quality of life for patients with intermittent claudication by boosting maximal walking distance in just three months. Sadly, it’s underutilized. Home based exercise therapy with observation tools like a pedometer or logbook and walking are other beneficial alternatives to supervised exercise, allowing a bit more of the preferred independence. (1) Oxford back pain patients may benefit in the same manner these back pain sufferers do. Spinal stenosis back pain patients would value walking more like that!
MORE REGULAR SUPERVISED SESSIONS BENEFICIAL
A recent report states that supervised physical therapy for lumbar spinal stenosis patients gave significant short-term improvements in symptom severity, walking distance, pain, physical activity and function in comparison to unsupervised. (2) A follow-up study evaluated a more specific schedule of supervised physical therapy visits – twice a week and one time weekly - to home exercise. It reports specifically that 6 weeks of supervised physical therapy two times a week for lumbar spinal stenosis patients allowed significant short term improvements in the severity of symptoms, physical function, back and leg pain and gait disturbance compared with one time a week PT visits and home exercise exclusively. (3) Our Oxford back pain patients would welcome all these improvements, undoubtedly!
EXERCISE AS PART OF AN OVERALL BACK PAIN RELIEF TREATMENT PLAN
Improvement is the goal for back pain management. Independence only gets you so far when dealing with back pain. There’s always a tipping point when the pain just can’t be dealt with any longer! Then a visit to the doctor is planned. Many articles are written about the choice of healthcare provider a back pain sufferer sees first sets the course for subsequent care. (That was the subject of another blog!) Regarding exercise and physical therapy for back pain, though, these are conservative management forms that are often too infrequently used while opioid prescriptions are very common in the year before elective lumbar spine surgery: 84.4% opioid prescription and 14.6% minimum of 6 exercise therapy visits. (4) Satterwhite Chiropractic is honored to partner with you for back pain relief. Your Oxford chiropractor is an experienced Oxford back pain specialist whose treatment plan incorporates the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management and exercise.
CONTACT Satterwhite Chiropractic
Schedule your Oxford chiropractic visit with Satterwhite Chiropractic today. Together, we will set up a thorough treatment plan for you that will permit a nice balance of independence and supervision for maximal Oxford back pain relief.
