Dynamic Sitting Exercise versus Spinal Extension Exercise on Pain from Mechanical Low Back Pain

Dynamic Sitting Exercise

It is always fun to see other researchers’ ideas reflected in my writing. While perusing the internet, I came across this article in The Indian Journal of Physiotherapy & Occupational Therapy comparing the chair-care decompression exercise we measured in 2010 to the well-known movement of the McKenzie prone press-up.

Dynamic Sitting Exercise
Dynamic Sitting Exercise

vs.

Spinal Extension Exercise
Spinal Extension Exercise

The researchers found that the Dynamic Seated Exercise performed better than the Spinal Extension Exercise over the 6 weeks for people’s lower back pain. 1 I coined this decompression strategy ‘chair-care’ with the hopes that people could remember it; however, I like ‘Dynamic Seated Exercise’ better. I hope it sticks.

Seeing other researchers exploring the dynamics of what we do too much of is always exciting: sitting. JF

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