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New Roads Chiropractic Exercise Recommendation Benefits for Sleep and Back Pain

Exercise. New Roads back pain sufferers get the recommendation to exercise a lot. New Roads Chiropractic Center recommends it, too. Exercise continues to show its benefit for relief of low back pain and its prevention…and a new report reveals benefit for better sleep quality!

EXERCISE FOR RELIEF OF THE BURDEN OF LOW BACK PAIN

Low back pain is a problem for the low back pain sufferer, the family, the community, and the healthcare system. Healthcare providers and researchers investigate proposed long-term methods to reduce this problem for whose sufferers’ disability continues. Exercise tops the list of non-invasive, non-drug general recommendations along with manual therapy and massage. (1) New Roads Chiropractic Center offers itself as the New Roads back pain specialty clinic to which many back pain sufferers go.

BACK PAIN SPECIALIST’S PLAN FOR BACK PAIN RELIEF ADDS EXERCISE

Numerous chronic back pain sufferers visit their primary care practitioners first. It’s 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 indicates the number of patients with a certain condition who need to have it done 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 showed sustained chronic low back pain relief after the intervention ended and up to 48 weeks later. (2) Exercise is a useful, self-management, non-drug option for chronic low back pain patients. New Roads Chiropractic Center always includes it in the New Roads chiropractic treatment plan. Exercise puts some control of chronic low back pain in our New Roads chiropractic patients’ hands.

WHAT ABOUT SLEEP AND EXERCISE?

An additional advantageous patient-controlled alternative is the sleep and exercise option. Lack of sleep – time and/or quality – is a problem for so many New Roads chiropractic patients. New Roads Chiropractic Center often hears our patients talk about sleep difficulties. Sleep is renewing for the body and the mind. Exercise is manytimes prescribed to address sleep and mood issues. An interesting study about the relationship between sleep and exercise features some interesting findings in young women and men. There are differences for each! Men who exercised more often reported falling asleep quicker, less daytime trouble, and less depressive mood. Women who exercised more frequently went to bed early, had better sleep quality, and described more benefit from sleep, less depressive mood, and less anger. (3) Regular exercise is important for so many concerns!

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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 and strengthening exercise that improved her condition.

Schedule your New Roads chiropractic appointment today. “Exercise.” It is a recommendation New Roads Chiropractic Center will continue to share for back pain relief and prevention as well as sleep improvement.

New Roads Chiropractic Center shares recent research about the benefit of exercise for back pain relief and sleep.  
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