In seems inherent that treatments for lower back pain relief would include stretching. In general, flexibility is a good thing and that’s why activities like yoga are bad for a chiropractic business.
One of the more common questions I get as a chiropractor is what stretches or what exercises should be done for chronic lower back pain. My easy answer is to strongly recommend that the patient get themselves into a yoga program and give it a try for several weeks.
To understand the benefits of yoga, you need to understand that the “30-second” warm-up stretch that we have all been taught from gym class in elementary school on is merely an attempt to avoid injury and does nothing to improve flexibility in the long run. And flexibility is so darn important. I’d have to say that almost all of the patients that I see in my office for treatment of chronic lower back pain have very poor flexibility. For lack of something more specific, the lumbar region in these patients is locked up and can’t move the way it needs to.
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