Exercise to Strengthen Muscle in Women Helps with Elgin Back Pain Relief
Low back pain in older women demands some attention. Researchers and chiropractic back pain specialists like your Elgin chiropractor at Connected Chiropractic provide that attention! Women who experience back pain are a special subset of our chiropractic practice with whom we are happy to work!
OLDER WOMEN AND Elgin BACK PAIN
A recent report shared that low back pain in older women stems from abdominal truck muscle weakness. The women described in this study also experienced decreased mobility function. Even their knee extensor muscle strength was weak. What links these issues together? Muscle. Researchers explained that muscle weakness directly linked low back pain, malnutrition, and decreased mobility function in older women. The good news was emphasized that exercise enhanced these factors. (1) Connected Chiropractic sees over and over the benefit of exercise for our Elgin back pain patients.
EXERCISE AND BACK PAIN RELIEF
Elgin chiropractic patients with back pain desire pain relief. That is the objective of care. Our patients frequently try other healthcare options like oral NSAIDs (number needed to treat (NNT) is 7 meaning 7 patients need to be treated for one patient to report benefit) and SNRIs like duloxetine (NNT: 10) and exercise (NNT: 7). A recent study found that these options many times deliver clinically meaningful pain decrease as shown by the above number-needed-to-treat stats. Which works over time though? Exercise. The researchers wrote that the only intervention that demonstrated sustained benefit after the study’s intervention time period ended was exercise. (2) We present this to foster the practice of exercise for all our Elgin back pain (and neck pain) patients. Since this is an article focused on women with low back pain, Connected Chiropractic urges our older women patients to exercise. It’s central to the chiropractic treatment plan that involves simple exercises as the beginning point!
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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Francis Bigas Morales on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as she shares treatment of lumbago suffered by a patient and the treatment plan for its relief with the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.
Schedule your Elgin chiropractic appointment soon. We are here to take particular care of our female patients with back pain! We’ll do our part in designing an individualized treatment plan and exercise program to support you in doing your part with exercise for desired back pain relief!
