Cardiovascular exercise can play a critical role in maintaining spine health and ensuring progress in recovery from back pain or surgery. Balancing aerobic (or cardiovascular) exercise, which works the heart, with anaerobic strengthening exercises and stretching can deliver both physical and mental benefits for back pain patients, allowing them to

• Maintain a healthy weight or lose weight
• Relieve stress, anxiety, and depression
• Increase flexibility and mobility
• Improve strength of muscles and joints that support the spine
• Increase circulation throughout the spine and supporting structures, which is crucial to promote healing
• Improve quality and duration of sleep

Learn more at http://www.spine-health.com/wellness/exercise/home-exercise-equipment-low-impact-aerobic-exercise