Montreal Chiropractic Back Pain Relief Benefits from Regular Exercise
Independence. It’s a worthy quality. Sometimes. When it comes to exercise, accepting some guidance more often is better. Dr. Hoang's Chiropractic Clinic is equipped to be your guide! Montreal back pain sufferers can depend on Dr. Hoang's Chiropractic Clinic to assemble, demonstrate and supervise an exercise routine that is pain relieving just for you!
BENEFIT OF SUPERVISED EXERCISE
Research demonstrates that supervised exercise therapy allows significant symptom relief and improved quality of life for patients with intermittent claudication by increasing maximal walking distance in just 3 months. Sadly, it is underutilized. Home based exercise therapy with observation tools like a pedometer or logbook and walking are other valuable alternatives to supervised exercise, allowing a bit more of the preferred independence. (1) Montreal back pain patients may benefit in the same manner these back pain sufferers do. Spinal stenosis back pain patients would value walking more in such a way!
MORE FREQUENT SUPERVISED SESSIONS BENEFICIAL
A newer study reports that supervised physical therapy for lumbar spinal stenosis patients delivered significant short-term improvements in symptom severity, walking distance, pain, physical activity and function compared with unsupervised. (2) A follow-up study compared a more specialized schedule of supervised physical therapy visits – two times a week and once weekly - to home exercise. It states specifically that 6 weeks of supervised physical therapy twice weekly for lumbar spinal stenosis patients provided significant short term improvements in the severity of symptoms, physical function, back and leg pain and gait disturbance rather than one time a week PT visits and home exercise exclusively. (3) Our Montreal back pain patients would embrace 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 is always a tipping point when the pain just can’t be put up with any longer! Then a trip to the doctor is arranged. 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!) Concerning 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 sessions. (4) Dr. Hoang's Chiropractic Clinic is honored to be chosen for back pain relief. Your Montreal chiropractor is an experienced Montreal back pain specialist whose treatment plan includes the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management and exercise.
CONTACT Dr. Hoang's Chiropractic Clinic
Schedule your Montreal chiropractic visit with Dr. Hoang's Chiropractic Clinic today. Together, we will set up a thorough treatment plan for you that will permit a nice balance of independence and supervision for best Montreal back pain relief.
