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 Plainville chiropractor at Layden Chiropractic wonder how to get back pain patients to do suggested exercises. In any case, these exercises help back pain sufferers get stronger as well as reduce and prevent back pain! The back muscles and gluteus muscles and hamstrings get stronger. Patients wonder why the chiropractor suggests exercises since all they desired was for the chiropractor to resolve the back pain problem. What a dilemma! Both the Plainville chiropractor and Plainville 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 recognize this and their chiropractors recognize this, everyone then works together to relieve Plainville back pain, prevent future pain, and strengthen muscle. Let us do that!
EXERCISE GUIDELINES TO LESSEN AND PREVENT BACK PAIN AND NECK PAIN
Guidelines for how to handle back pain and neck pain are established. Exercise is amid 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 listed in these guidelines by the Global Spine Care Initiative. (2) Layden Chiropractic carefully considers these in caring for Plainville back pain.
BACK PAIN BENEFITS FROM STRONG GLUTEAL MUSCLES
Patients with low back pain are more apt to be less active. Pain affects that decision. Low back pain patients fear that activity may set off pain, resulting in weakened muscles like the gluteus maximus. Prolonged immobilization or sedentariness prevents use of these muscles. In low back pain patients, a weak gluteus maximus is a common finding. Researchers document that the gluteus maximus cross-sectional area is reduced in low back pain sufferers, particularly in women. (3) For Plainville chiropractic back pain patients experiencing persistent lumbopelvic pain and test positive for sacroiliac joint dysfunction, performing gluteus maximus strengthening exercises is advantageous. Patients who did these found a decrease in pain and an improvement 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 increased lumbar spine muscle strength and balance better than just lumbar segmental stabilization exercise by itself. (5) To stimulate the gluteus maximus muscles, erector spinae and hamstrings more deliverately during exercise, researchers devised a unique laser pointer system that permitted the exercise participants to visualize their muscle usage. This enhanced their form. (6) Let your Plainville chiropractor be your laser pointer! Follow suggested tips for how to exercise properly.
CONTACT Layden Chiropractic
Schedule your Plainville chiropractic appointment to arrange a treatment plan that involves your Plainville chiropractor treating as well as your exercising to strengthen muscles. When the Plainville chiropractor and the Plainville chiropractic patient both “get” each other, Plainville back pain is history!
