How can walking help to Reduce Sciatica and Back pain

Causes

Upwards of 80% of Americans can experience low back pain or sciatica at one time or another, and sometimes this is caused by a sprain strain injury, or somebody pushed pulled or carried something too heavy, but often it can be caused by a spinal misalignment called the subluxation. When you have a misalignment that puts stress on your nervous system causing your health problems, This is the type of condition that we most commonly see.

How can walking help reducing sciatica and Back pain

We typically get  best results when somebody actively engages in the healing process, and this can be something as simple as walking, in fact a 2004 published article in the journal spine showed that the single session of exercise like walking could reduce low back pain by 10% to 50%

You might be wondering why something as simple as walking can reduce your back pain, and that comes down to something called the gate theory of pain. You see healthy joint motion travels down nerves that move very quickly whereas pains since down nerve that move very slowly, so when you walk, when you exercise your actually opening the floodgates to healthy information to the brain, and since it moves so quickly down these very large nerves it actually overrides these messages of pain. And on a very local level, when you receive a chiropractic adjustment and we restore and improve the joint motion, you're not only improved drastically increase the import of this healthy joint motion to the brain, actually quiet the signals of pain themselves.

How to start walking

So where do you start, obviously if you're in pain or you're new to exercise you need to start slowly, but you're gonna be surprised at how quickly you can increase the intensity, duration, even distance that your exercise. And obviously if you have a shooting pain or numbness just follow your doctor's advice