St Peters Back Surgery Patients Must Exercise
10,080 minutes are in a week. What do you do with all those minutes? Sleep, eat, talk, work, listen, shop, drive…exercise? Exercise doesn’t always come in at number one on most people’s lists of favorite things to do with their time. It is 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 St Peters chiropractor needs to do that! Time goes by so quickly for all of us, including time for your St Peters chiropractic physician at Old Mill Chiropractic. Your St Peters chiropractic physician at Old Mill Chiropractic encourages St Peters chiropractic patients to keep up their exercise routines even when their St Peters back pain is not so bad.
Exercise makes people happier, less depressed and sleep better. (1,2) St Peters chiropractic patients do, too! Hearts and minds are healthier when their owners exercise. (3,4) Just take a walk down your St Peters street, and see how much clearer you think and healthier you feel as your heart pumps more. Exercise slows memory loss. (4) Exercise reduces depressive symptoms. (2) Blood pressure drops. (5) Life span may even be increased due to heart workouts with aerobic exercise. (3) Old Mill Chiropractic sees lots of advantages from all of these!
Exercise is life-giving. Exercise is life-supporting. Exercise is all that for normal spine folks but even more crucial for St Peters back pain sufferers particularly for St Peters post-back surgery patients who still have back pain. Post-surgical patients who exercise 150 minutes a week show a remarkable 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 per week exercise expenditure and left them open 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 opening them to the risk of degenerative diagnoses, subsequent spine surgery, and more postoperative back pain. (6) 150 minutes a week doesn’t sound like much anymore, does it? Old Mill Chiropractic knows our St Peters chiropractic patients can find 2.5 hours a week for their back’s sake. It's part of the whole St Peters treatment plan of chiropractic care.
Exercise before surgery. Exercise after surgery. Exercise for life. Exercise for health. Schedule your St Peters chiropractic visit today. Old Mill Chiropractic is ready to help you set up an exercise routine just for you, one your St Peters lifestyle can manage, one that you’ll be ready to put time on your calendar to do.
