Specialized Spine Care in Colorado Springs

Back Pain Exercises

Colorado Springs Orthopaedic Group

Spinal conditions can affect your neck, back, movement, and overall quality of life. Pain, stiffness, numbness, or weakness can make it difficult to work, exercise, sleep, or perform everyday activities.

CSOG provides comprehensive care for a wide range of conditions affecting the cervical, thoracic, and lumbar spine. Our specialists use a conservative-first approach whenever appropriate, with treatment options that may include physical therapy, medications, injections, and other nonsurgical treatments. When surgery is necessary, advanced surgical techniques may provide another option.

Your care begins with a thorough evaluation to understand the source of your symptoms and how they are affecting you. We then develop a treatment plan based on your condition, goals, and individual needs.

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Back Pain Exercises

Strenuous activities of daily living can stress the back resulting in pain. It is natural at this time to withdraw from activity and rest, but is not helpful in the long run and may actually slow down the healing process.

Exercise helps in rehabilitating the back, relieving pain, preventing or reducing the severity of future episodes, strengthening muscles, improving flexibility and reducing stiffness. A good exercise regimen usually consists of stretching, strengthening, and core strengthening activities. Exercises can include simple walking, yoga, pilates, hydrotherapy, swimming, aquarobics, meditation, deep breathing and tai chi. It should be done in comfortable clothing, and not involve actions that increase pain or involve bouncing movements. Individual stretching exercises targeted at the neck, shoulders, back, hip and thighs can also help relieve back pain.