Bergen County Chiropractor, Dr. Peter Ferraro, recommends light strengthening and stretching exercises to help relieve lower back pain. According to Dr. Ferraro, muscles that are exercised often can utilize oxygen more efficiently, which helps them become stronger and healthier overtime.

With specific focus on the back, strengthening the muscles that support the spine, the stomach, back and leg muscles, can reduce pressure on spinal discs and prevent disc injury. In addition to strengthening exercises, those with lower back pain can also benefit from aerobic exercises such as walking or swimming. Aerobic exercise helps muscles use oxygen more efficiently. Muscles that frequently receive oxygen-rich blood stay healthier.

Dr. Ferraro is quoted, “Most low back pain can get better if patients stay active. Patients whose low back pain prevents them from being active need to seek professional treatment.”

Dr Ferraro’s Bergen County Chiropractic office offers a variety of treatment programs which can combine chiropractic care and physical therapy to help strengthen and alleviate low back pain so that patients can resume most normal activities. Patients that avoid treatment or activity because of pain can be causing much more serious harm to their back. Too little activity can lead to loss of flexibility, strength, and endurance, and then eventually to more pain.

Dr. Ferraro at Ferraro Spine & Rehabilitation can help with chronic back pain with many different treatment options. With two convenient locations in both Bergen and Monmouth Counties, Dr. Ferraro is also very accessible. You can find out more information about Ferraro Spine & Rehabilitation by calling Dr. Ferraro’s office at 973-478-2212 or by visiting http://stopbackandneckpain.com.

About Dr. Ferraro

NJ Chiropractor Dr. Ferraro, D.C. specializes in the multidisciplinary non-surgical treatment of spinal conditions. His practices throughout New Jersey provide patients in Bergen and Monmouth County with comprehensive care for back, neck, leg, arm, and nerve conditions.

Dr. Ferraro, D.C. has over 14 years of experience in the chiropractic field and has become nationally recognized for his extensive work using non-surgical decompression technology along with being certified in Manipulation Under Anesthesia (MUA).

Dr. Ferraro’s blog: http://spinaldecompression-nj.com

Contract. Relax. This is the basic mechanism of muscular action. Problems develop when there’s too much of one or the other. In most cases, too much contraction is the culprit.

Persistent muscular contraction in the lower back or neck, for example, leads to a cascade of troublesome effects. Toxic metabolic end-products – including lactic acid – accumulate. These small molecules irritate local nerve endings and cause ongoing pain. Muscle spasm results which narrows local blood vessels. Too little blood reaching the area deprives tissues of oxygen and other important nutrients. Cellular damage results with further build-up of noxious metabolites.

Chiropractic treatment encourages a return to normal sinusoidal balance by restoring normal spinal alignment. Spasmodic muscles are enabled to relax. Blood vessels can now supply appropriate amounts of oxygen and nutrients. Metabolic waste is removed. Vitality is restored and pain resolves. Spinal muscles and spinal joints return to operating in a natural ebb-and-flow rhythm.

Honoring the deep nature of how our bodies work goes far toward alleviating many disease states. Getting back into the natural rhythms of being human certainly helps many conditions involving back pain, neck pain, and headaches. Chiropractic care is an important part of helping reestablish the normal ebb and flow. Contact NJ chiropractor, Dr Peter Ferraro,  to further discuss how chiropractic care may help reestablish your ebb and flow.

Bergen County Chiropractor, Dr Peter Ferraro, recommends light to moderate exercise for obese patients suffering from arthritis and joint pain.  A new study from Duke University concurs that regular exercise may significantly reduce a patient’s arthritis pain even if they are unable to lose excess weight.

Dr Ferraro is quoted, “Exercise for arthritis patients may be painful at first, but long term benefits show that these patients can gain back more mobility and reduce their pain tremendously.”  Dr Ferraro says that even light to moderate exercise such as walking on a treadmill or outdoors can be beneficial.

According to Dr Ferraro, many of his arthritis patients say that they do not exercise because they are afraid of aggravating their joints, when in fact lack of exercise can increase pain and stiffness.

Dr Ferraro says that keeping your muscles and surrounding tissue strong is important to maintaining support for bones. Lack of exercise can lead to a weakening of the muscles that support bones, creating more stress on joints.

Bergen County Patients Should Check With Doctors Before Beginning Exercise Programs

Patients suffering from arthritis or joint pain are advised to consult with their physician before beginning any exercise program.  Different types of arthritis require different types of exercises. Exercises that may be recommended for arthritis patients include those that mimic natural range of motion such as raising and lowering the arms over the head, light weight training and low impact aerobic exercises such as swimming, walking or bike riding.

Dr Ferraro may also recommend some patients follow a nutraMetrix® supplement program. nutraMetrix Advanced Nutraceuticals are different from lower quality vitamins. nutraMetrix products contain no fillers or binders. They are isotonic in nature and 90-95 percent of the supplements are absorbed in the small intestine within 5 minutes of swallowing them.

The nutraMetrix products available through NJ Chiropractor Dr Peter Ferraro offer state-of-the-art health, wellness and weight-management solutions.

For more information on arthritis and joint pain or nutraMetrix Nutraceuticals, please call Dr Ferraro’s office at 973-478-2212.

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The condition of fibromyalgia creates many challenges for a person with this disorder. These challenges often go far beyond the characteristic chronic pain which alone can be potentially debilitating. Those with fibromyalgia have pain in many locations and the presence of multiple pain sites is often confusing to their doctor or doctors. Family physicians, internists, endocrinologists, and even pain management specialists and rheumatologists often have great difficulty in comprehending the full extent of fibromyalgia and the serious health and well-being issues that are caused by the disorder.

Persons with fibromyalgia have so many symptoms that an uninformed physician may find it easier to refer such patients to a psychologist or psychiatrist. But the physical symptoms of fibromyalgia are real. The sufferers have widespread pain on a chronic basis. Additional symptoms include fatigue, sleep disturbances, numbness or tingling in the hands and feet, joint stiffness, and cognitive dysfunction (brain fog). Depression commonly affects those with fibromyalgia.

Owing to the presence of so many chronic symptoms, fibromyalgia is notoriously difficult to treat. Such patients are typically taking multiple medications, prescribed by multiple specialists attempting to combat the problems that fall within their particular branch of medicine – pain management, rheumatology, and psychology/psychiatry.

Despite taking several medications on a long-term basis, most fibromyalgia patients tend not to improve. Depression and chronic pain take a profound toll, and daily living becomes quite burdensome. Many fibromyalgia patients despair of ever finding even a partial solution.

Bergen County Chiropractor’s Office Has Many Methods of Treating Fibromyalgia Pain

Attempts to address the problems of fibromyalgia by just treating the symptoms often fail. As the physiologic causes of the disorder are unknown, holistic approaches have a much greater likelihood of success. Multidisciplinary treatment is needed to impact this systems-wide disorder, including chiropractic care, nutritional recommendations, psychological counseling, and a gradual return to increased levels of physical activity and exercise.

In addition to chiropractic care, Ferraro Spine and Rehabilitation in Saddle Brook, NJ offers nutritional counseling and physical therapy.

Chiropractic care, by its very nature, is a holistic method of healing. By using noninvasive methods which balance function within both the nerve system and the musculoskeletal system, chiropractic care gives your body the best chance to recover from many complicated problems.

Chiropractic care is a key component of the multidisciplinary approach to management of multisystemic disorders such as fibromyalgia. By restoring more normal function to the person’s nerve system, chiropractic care unleashes powerful and natural healing forces. The result is a body whose parts are now working together instead of against each other. As the body heals, pain and symptoms will likely naturally begin to reduce and resolve

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