Elgin Chiropractic Exercise Plans for Post-Surgery Care
10,080 minutes are in a week. What do you do with all those minutes? Sleep, eat, talk, work, listen, shop, drive…exercise? Isn’t exercise number one on your list?! It’s recommended that we all put in at least 150 minutes of exercise a week. (6) That’s just
- 2 and a half hours a week.
- 5 sessions of 30 minutes a week.
- 10 sessions of 15 minutes a week.
That does not seem like much, but we need to schedule it into our busy lives, don’t we? Even your Elgin chiropractor needs to do that! Time goes by so fast for all of us, including time for your Elgin chiropractic physician at Connected Chiropractic. Your Elgin chiropractic physician at Connected Chiropractic encourages Elgin chiropractic patients to continue doing their exercise routines even when their Elgin back pain is not so bad.
People sleep better, are happier and less depressed when they exercise. (1,2) Elgin chiropractic patients benefit like this, too! Hearts and minds are healthier when their owners exercise. (3,4) Just take a walk down your Elgin street, and see how much clearer you think and better you feel as your heart pumps more. Exercise reduce memory loss. (4) Exercise reduces depressive symptoms. (2) Blood pressure falls. (5) Life span may even be increased due to heart workouts with aerobic exercise. (3) Connected Chiropractic sees lots of positives from all of these!
Exercise is life-giving. Exercise is life-supporting. Exercise is all that for normal spine folks but even more significant for Elgin back pain sufferers especially for Elgin post-back surgery patients who still have back pain. Post-surgical patients who exercise 150 minutes a week show a notable reduction in pain and reoperation rate states a new study of post-surgery back pain patients. In this study the mean age was 57 years old. 80% of them had degenerative diagnoses. 63% had gone through a multilevel back surgery. Only 35% of them met the greater than 1400 kcal a week exercise expenditure and left them vulnerable to a second surgery (called a revision surgery). Only 26% of post back surgery patients met the more than 150 minutes a week of exercise leaving them open to degenerative diagnoses, subsequent spine surgery, and more postoperative back pain. (6) 150 minutes a week doesn’t sound like much anymore, does it? Connected Chiropractic knows our Elgin chiropractic patients can arrange 2.5 hours a week for their back’s sake. It's part of the whole Elgin treatment plan of chiropractic care.
Exercise in advance of surgery. Exercise following surgery. Exercise for life. Exercise for health. Schedule your Elgin chiropractic visit today. Connected Chiropractic is ready to help you set up an exercise routine just for you, one your Elgin lifestyle can manage, one that you’ll be able to put time into your schedule to do.
