Concord, NC Chiropractic Exercise Recommendation Benefits for Sleep and Back Pain
Exercise. Concord, NC back pain sufferers get the advice to exercise often. Pure Chiropractic recommends it, also. Exercise continues to show its benefit for relief of low back pain and its prevention…and a new report shows benefit for better sleep quality!
EXERCISE FOR RELIEF OF THE BURDEN OF LOW BACK PAIN
Low back pain is a burden for the low back pain sufferer, the family, the community, and the healthcare system. Healthcare providers and researchers analyze proposed long-term ways to reduce this problem for whose sufferers’ disability continues. Exercise tops the list of non-invasive, non-drug general recommendations with manual therapy and massage in that list as well. (1) Pure Chiropractic is the Concord, NC back pain specialty clinic that many back pain sufferers visit.
BACK PAIN SPECIALIST’S PLAN FOR BACK PAIN RELIEF ADDS EXERCISE
Many chronic back pain sufferers visit their primary care practitioners first. it is a pretty standard routing. Primary care recommendations for chronic low back pain care often involve exercise, oral prescriptions of NSAIDs and SNRI’s like duloxetine. In research, there is a curious statistic called “number to treat” which denotes the number of patients with a certain condition who need to go through the treatment recommendation for 1 of the treatment recipients to get benefit. In this new study, the number to treat for 1 chronic low back pain patient to report benefit from exercise was 7, from NSAIDs 6, and SNRIs 10. Of these three options, exercise was the only intervention that demonstrated continued chronic low back pain relief after the intervention ended and up to 48 weeks later. (2) Exercise is a valuable, self-management, non-drug option for chronic low back pain patients. Pure Chiropractic always incorporates it in the Concord, NC chiropractic treatment plan. Exercise puts some control of chronic low back pain in our Concord, NC chiropractic patients’ hands.
WHAT ABOUT SLEEP AND EXERCISE?
Another beneficial patient-controlled alternative is sleep-and-exercise. Lack of sleep – time and/or quality – is an issue for so many Concord, NC chiropractic patients. Pure Chiropractic often hears our patients bring up sleep difficulties. Sleep is renewing for the body and the mind. Exercise is manytimes prescribed to address sleep and mood issues. A noteworthy study about the relationship between sleep and exercise features some interesting findings in young men and women. Each is different! Men who exercised more often reported falling asleep faster, less daytime trouble, and less depressive mood. Women who exercised more frequently went to bed earlier, had better sleep quality, and described more benefit from sleep, less depressive mood, and less anger. (3) Regular exercise is important for so many issues!
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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Pamela Aaron on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as she describes a case of a young lady with low back pain and her treatment with the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management plus strengthening exercise that improved her condition.
Set up your Concord, NC chiropractic appointment today. “Exercise.” It’s a recommendation Pure Chiropractic will continue to share for back pain relief and prevention in addition to improved sleep.
