New York City Chiropractic Exercise Recommendation Benefits for Sleep and Back Pain
Exercise. New York City back pain sufferers hear the recommendation to exercise a lot. Rosenberg Wellness Center recommends it, too. Exercise keeps showing its benefit for relief of low back pain and its prevention…plus 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 study suggested long-term ways to decrease 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) Rosenberg Wellness Center is the New York City 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 find themselves going to their primary care practitioners first. It’s a pretty normal experience. Primary care recommendations for chronic low back pain care usually involve exercise, oral prescriptions of NSAIDs and SNRI’s like duloxetine. In research, there is an interesting statistic called “number to treat” which denotes 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 demonstrated continued chronic low back pain relief after the intervention ended and up to 48 weeks later. (2) Exercise is a useful, self-management, non-drug alternative for chronic low back pain patients. Rosenberg Wellness Center always includes it in the New York City chiropractic treatment plan. Exercise places some control of chronic low back pain in our New York City chiropractic patients’ hands.
WHAT ABOUT SLEEP AND EXERCISE?
An additional beneficial patient-controlled option is sleep-and-exercise. Lack of sleep – time and/or quality – is a problem for so many New York City chiropractic patients. Rosenberg Wellness Center often hears our patients bring up sleep difficulties. Sleep is rejuvenating for the body and the mind. Exercise is often prescribed to address sleep and mood issues. A noteworthy study about the relationship between sleep and exercise highlights some interesting findings in young women and men. There are differences for each! Men who exercised more often reported falling asleep quicker, less daytime issues, and less depressive mood. Women who exercised more often went to bed earlier, experienced better sleep quality, and reported 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 female patient with low back pain and her treatment with the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management and strengthening exercise that improved her condition.
Make your New York City chiropractic appointment soon. “Exercise.” It is a recommendation Rosenberg Wellness Center will keep sharing for back pain relief and prevention in addition to sleep improvement.
