- Anatomy of The Spine
- Back Pain in Children
- Caring for your Spine
- Emerging Spinecare Trends
- Evaluation of Spinal Disorders
- Exercise and The Spine
- Intervention - Spinal Disorders
- Intervertebral Disc
- Non Surgical Options
- Nutrition and Spinecare
- Options for Spine Treatments
- Pregnancy and Back Pain
- Prevalence of Spine Disorders
- Sleep and the Spine
- Spinecare Introduction
- Spinehealth and Disease
- Surgical Interventions
- Treatment with Medications
- Understanding Back Pain
Spinecare Topics
Caring for your Spine
Spinal Exercises
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Spinal Exercises
General Benefits of Exercise:
There are extensive generalized benefits of exercise. The primary benefits include improvement of cardiovascular, endocrine, psychological, and immunological health. Exercise has been shown to:
Improve lipid (fat) profiles.
Increase HDL level.
Decrease LDL level.
Help stabilize blood sugar.
Reduce triglycerides.
Exercise helps improve blood sugar control in individuals with diabetes, those with impaired glucose tolerance, and those who are generally at risk for diabetes. Exercise also helps reduce the risk for osteoporosis. Brief high-intensity periods of loading generate a positive stress on the bone, which induces an osteogenic response, which helps to prevent or delay the onset of bone thinning (osteoporosis) associated with age.
Exercise helps reduces stress, can improve depression, and increase the sense of well being. The precise mechanism is unknown, although it is felt that this may be the result of endorphin release, the body’s own painkillers. Numerous studies have demonstrated a possible link between excessive body weight and cancer particularly endometrial, renal, breast, esophageal, colon, and gallbladder cancers.
It is important that physicians help educate the public and their patients about the benefits of exercise. Patients who understand the potential benefits of regular exercise are more apt to be compliant with an exercise program.
There are extensive generalized benefits of exercise. The primary benefits include improvement of cardiovascular, endocrine, psychological, and immunological health. Exercise has been shown to:
Improve lipid (fat) profiles.
Increase HDL level.
Decrease LDL level.
Help stabilize blood sugar.
Reduce triglycerides.
Exercise helps improve blood sugar control in individuals with diabetes, those with impaired glucose tolerance, and those who are generally at risk for diabetes. Exercise also helps reduce the risk for osteoporosis. Brief high-intensity periods of loading generate a positive stress on the bone, which induces an osteogenic response, which helps to prevent or delay the onset of bone thinning (osteoporosis) associated with age.
Exercise helps reduces stress, can improve depression, and increase the sense of well being. The precise mechanism is unknown, although it is felt that this may be the result of endorphin release, the body’s own painkillers. Numerous studies have demonstrated a possible link between excessive body weight and cancer particularly endometrial, renal, breast, esophageal, colon, and gallbladder cancers.
It is important that physicians help educate the public and their patients about the benefits of exercise. Patients who understand the potential benefits of regular exercise are more apt to be compliant with an exercise program.
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