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Carrolltown Back Pain Relief Helped by Walking 90 Minutes Weekly

Just walk! It’s easy. It’s economical. It’s effective. Walking is an amazing means to get healthy and stay healthy. Walking is a fantastic way to find relief from chronic pain and back pain. Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation's Carrolltown chiropractic back pain specialist often advises walking as one of the first things to try to Carrolltown back pain patients. Here is why…

WALK MORE. SIT LESS.

It may seem strange when Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation asks about your sitting habits when you come in for Carrolltown back pain treatment and relief, but it is not! It’s well known and now even research documented that sitting for extended periods of time is a risk factor for low back pain. Recent research goes even further to point out that longer sitting and low physical activity boosts low back pain risk even more. (1) Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation’s curiosity about your sitting habits is logical! Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation’s recommendation to walk is, too.

Carrolltown WALKING BENEFITS

Carrolltown walking is beneficial for Carrolltown back pain relief along with the back pain relieving Carrolltown chiropractic care at Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation! Walking is helpful for chronic musculoskeletal pain sufferers like those with low back pain, fibromyalgia and osteoarthritis. Walking is a helpful form of exercise for chronic pain relief and is associated with significant improvements in pain and function. (2) Exercise and physical activities like muscle strengthening and aerobic exercise have plenty of support for effectively managing low back pain. Weekly walking is gaining more and more approval to be added to this list of effective activities. For over-50 year olds, weekly walking of 90 minutes a week decreases the risk of low back pain. Lengthier walking sessions are seemingly preferred. Regular walking for a longer time for more than 3 days a week is significantly associated with lower low back pain risk. (3) Excitingly, a walking program is research-documented to have the cheapest costs and the highest level of continuing to do it by back pain patients. (4) Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation knows that our Carrolltown chiropractic patients will like that balance!

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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Amanda Harris on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson about how well Cox® Technic helped a spinal stenosis back pain patient get back to walking and start enjoying the benefits of walking, again.

Schedule a Carrolltown chiropractic appointment now. Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation gets that Carrolltown back pain sufferers seek pain relief. The recommendation of “just walk” may be the right one for you! Walking is simple, cheap, and on your own time!

Carrolltown walking 3 days a week helps control back pain, a great addition to Carrolltown chiropractic care at Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation! 
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