Wake Up Your Multifidus Muscles: A Path to Chronic Back Pain Relief
Dealing with chronic low back pain every single day? There's hope: those deep multifidus muscles supporting your spine may just need the right care to function properly again. Old Mill Chiropractic is here to help with your back pain relief! Recent research shows that targeting these specific muscles could be the key to relief for our St Peters chiropractic patients like you.
MEET YOUR SPINE'S UNSUNG HEROES
Your multifidus muscles are deep stabilizers working behind the scenes to support each vertebra. When they're working properly, they keep your spine stable and protected. But when chronic pain strikes, these muscles often become weak and stop firing properly—creating a frustrating cycle where pain causes weakness, and weakness causes more pain. A 2025 comprehensive review by Abd-Elsayed and colleagues confirms what many chiropractors like yours at Old Mill Chiropractic have observed (1): multifidus dysfunction plays a major role in chronic low back pain, and the evidence for treating it directly is getting stronger.
TWO PROVEN APPROACHES WORTH TRYING
Ask your chiropractor about intramuscular electrical stimulation—it's a breakthrough for many patients. Kużdżał and team's randomized controlled trial demonstrated that this targeted therapy significantly improved both pain levels and function in chronic back pain patients. (2) By directly stimulating weakened multifidus muscles, it helps rebuild the strength and coordination your spine needs to function properly.
Don't overlook the power of specific exercises, either. Wongcharoen and colleagues found that core stabilization exercises—think controlled pelvic tilts, bridges, and abdominal bracing that activate your deep spinal muscles while keeping your spine in neutral alignment—delivered substantial pain reduction when performed regularly. (3) These aren't your usual gym exercises; they're precisely created movements that retrain your multifidus muscles to support you all the day through.
TAKE ACTION NOW AND CONTACT Old Mill Chiropractic
Stop accepting chronic back pain as your new normal. Ask your chiropractor at Old Mill Chiropractic about multifidus-focused treatment options during your next visit. Whether through electrical stimulation, targeted exercise protocols, or hands-on techniques with our gentle Cox® Technic flexion distraction decompression spinal manipulation, concentrating on these crucial muscles could transform your pain experience.
