San Jose 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 does not always appear in at number one on most people’s lists of favorite things to do with their time.  Researchers recommend that we all exercise at least 150 minutes 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 doesn’t seem like much, but we need to schedule it into our busy lives, do we not? Even your San Jose chiropractor needs to do that! Time goes by so quickly for everyone, including time for your San Jose chiropractic physician at McMurray Chiropractic Solutions. Your San Jose chiropractic physician at McMurray Chiropractic Solutions encourages San Jose chiropractic patients to keep up their exercise routines even when they are feeling better and their back pain is better.

Exercise allows people to be happier, less depressed and sleep better. (1,2) San Jose chiropractic patients do, too! Hearts and minds are healthier when their owners exercise. (3,4) McMurray Chiropractic Solutions challenges you to get out and try a walk! See how much clearer you think and healthier you feel as your heart pumps more. Exercise slows memory loss. (4) Exercise decreases depressive symptoms. (2) Blood pressure drops. (5) Life span may even expand due to heart workouts with aerobic exercise. (3)  McMurray Chiropractic Solutions sees lots of positives from all of these!

Exercise is life-giving. Exercise is life-supporting. Exercise is all that for normal spine folks but even more significant for San Jose back pain sufferers especially for San Jose post-back surgery patients who still experience back pain. Post-surgical patients who exercise 150 minutes a week show a significant decrease in pain and reoperation rate states a new study of post-surgery back pain patients. In this study the mean age was 57 years of age. 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 (named a revision surgery). Only 26% of post back surgery patients met the more than 150 minutes a week of exercise leaving them open to degenerative diagnoses, subsequent spine surgery, and more postoperative back pain. (6) 150 minutes a week doesn’t sound like much anymore, does it? McMurray Chiropractic Solutions knows our San Jose chiropractic patients can schedule 2.5 hours a week for their back’s sake. It's part of the whole San Jose treatment plan of chiropractic care. 

Exercise before surgery. Exercise following surgery. Exercise for life. Exercise for health. Schedule your San Jose chiropractic visit today. McMurray Chiropractic Solutions is ready to see just how easy it may be to figure out just for you, one you will be able to fit into your San Jose lifestyle, one that you’ll be ready to put time on your calendar to do.

Schedule today!