Pflugerville Back Pain Relief with Paraspinal Muscle Health

Paraspinal muscles? Where are those? These muscles align the spine. They support the spine and allow it to move. And their health matters. Their health is a factor in your posture, your back pain condition, and your ability to move your spine as you need and desire.  Pflugerville Wellness Center advocates exercises as part of the chiropractic treatment plan to strengthen and maintain the strength of these important paraspinal muscles in the control of Pflugerville back pain and relief of back pain.

HOW DOES EXERCISE HELP PARASPINAL MUSCLES IN BACK PAIN?

The spine’s paraspinal muscles are the action muscles of the spine. They run up and down your whole spine. They move your spine. Also known as the erector spinae, paraspinal muscles allow you to lean, bend, twist, and arch your back. Their ability to do what they do is linked to the health of their neighboring tissues. A recent study documented that damage to the spine’s vertebral bones’ endplates has a role in chronic low back pain. Endplate damage and chronic low back pain patients’ symptoms are reported to depend on paraspinal muscle quality. Attempts to strengthen the paraspinal muscles can be beneficial. (1) Occasionally finding the right exercise for you is key.

EXERCISE CAN HELP PARASPINAL MUSCLES FOR MOST Pflugerville BACK PAIN SUFFERERS

Exercise is recommended to address two issues affecting Pflugerville low back pain: fatty infiltration of muscles and muscle weakness. In another recent study, high-intensity exercise didn’t change these two concerns for all participants. However, for those who did display improvement in fat content and weakness, functional improvement followed. (2) At least most of us can exercise to develop our backs’ paraspinal muscles.  Astronauts cannot! Their paraspinal and quadratus lumborum muscles were still weak 2 to 4 years after their space flight. Researchers speculate that these changes added to the back pain astronauts experience. (3) Pflugerville doesn’t have many astronauts in its population, so Pflugerville Wellness Center will help you figure out the proper form of exercise – be it high intensity or other such exercise – for your best improvement of Pflugerville back pain.  

CONTACT Pflugerville Wellness Center

Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Hamisi Kote Ali on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson who presents how treatment of paraspinal muscles via fascia manipulation goes hand-in-hand with spinal manipulation treatment utilizing gentle Cox® Technic to manage spine-related pain.

Schedule a Pflugerville chiropractic appointment with Pflugerville Wellness Center today. Together, we’ll establish the strength or lack thereof of your paraspinal muscles, your erector spinae muscles, and come up with the specific exercises to strengthen them for your spine’s most favorable alignment and movement.

Pflugerville Wellness Center explains the importance of paraspinal muscles and their strength for Pflugerville back pain relief.

« View All Featured Exercises
"This information and website content is not intended to diagnose, guarantee results, or recommend specific treatment or activity. It is designed to educate and inform only. Please consult your physician for a thorough examination leading to a diagnosis and well-planned treatment strategy. See more details on the DISCLAIMER page. Content is reviewed by Dr. James M. Cox I."