6 reasons why exercise helps for back pain relief:
When treating back pain, exercise is considered a cornerstone, meaning it’s a fundamental and essential part of management. Correct exercise should be performed regularly not less than 3 times a week, for a long time. It is impossible to strengthen muscles by exercising several times a week or only a few times.
Therapeutic exercises are supper important because they:
- Strengthens the deep back muscles, that stabilize the spine and protects the spinal structures from overload.
- Improves blood circulation, that promotes the removal of toxins, oxygen supply, that helps to reduces inflammation and pain.
- Improving muscle and joint mobility. As the amplitude of muscles and intervertebral joints increases, deep muscle spasms and pain decrease.
- Exercise performs neuromodulation for patient who suffers with chronic pain. This situation with long time pain cause hypersensitivity and fatigue. Exercise promotes the release of endorphins, that helps reduce pain perception and also has a positive effect on mood.
- Exercise helps correct unhealthy spinal postures caused by profession, for example: hairdressers, dentists, desk workers overload their back asymmetrically. Exercise helps correct and stabilise asymmetrical postures overloaded back muscles. Balanced muscle tone reduces excessive load on the intervertebral structures and thus reduces pain and inflammation.
- Exercise reduces stress, anxiety and depression caused by chronic pain. As people starting to feel their body properly, becoming stronger, they anxiety starts to decrease, it helps reduce muscle tension and thus reduces pain and therefore decrease anxiety.