Concord, NC Back Pain Relief Helped by Walking 90 Minutes Weekly
Just walk! It’s easy. It’s cheap. It’s effective. Walking is an amazing means to get healthy and stay healthy. Walking is a great way to find relief from chronic pain and back pain. Pure Chiropractic's Concord, NC chiropractic back pain specialist often advises walking as one of the first activities to try to Concord, NC back pain patients. Here is why…
WALK MORE. SIT LESS.
It may seem strange when Pure Chiropractic inquires about your sitting habits when you come in for Concord, NC back pain treatment and relief, but it’s not! It’s well known and now even supported by research that sitting for longer periods of time is a risk factor for low back pain. Recent research reports more emphatically that extensive sitting and low physical activity increases low back pain risk even more. (1) Pure Chiropractic’s curiosity about your sitting habits makes sense! Pure Chiropractic’s recommendation to walk does, too.
Concord, NC WALKING BENEFITS
Concord, NC walking is beneficial for Concord, NC back pain relief along with the back pain relieving Concord, NC chiropractic care at Pure Chiropractic! Walking is helpful for chronic musculoskeletal pain sufferers like those with low back pain, fibromyalgia and osteoarthritis. Walking is an effective kind of exercise for chronic pain relief and is related to significant improvements in pain and function. (2) Exercise and physical activities like muscle strengthening and aerobic exercise have lots of support for effectively managing low back pain. Weekly walking is gaining more and more favor to be added to this list of effective exercises. For over-50 year olds, weekly walking of 90 minutes a week lowers the risk of low back pain. Longer walking sessions are ostensibly better. Regular walking for a longer time for more than 3 days a week is significantly affiliated with lower low back pain risk. (3) Wonderfully, a walking program is research-documented to have the cheapest costs and the highest level of adherence by back pain patients. (4) Pure Chiropractic understands that our Concord, NC chiropractic patients will appreciate that balance!
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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Amanda Harris on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson about how well Cox® Technic assisted a spinal stenosis back pain patient get back to walking and start enjoying the benefits of walking, again.
Schedule a Concord, NC chiropractic appointment today. Pure Chiropractic understands that Concord, NC back pain sufferers desire pain relief. The suggestion of “just walk” may be the right one for you! Walking is easy, inexpensive, and on your own time!
