Chiropractic Spine Sports And Rehabilitation Manages Back Pain Fear with our Chiropractic Patients
Have you experienced back pain before? Yes? It’s natural to fear its recurrence, but do not let it stop your life! This time of year, just think of Santa. Think he’s experienced back pain before throwing all those boxes and bags? Chiropractic Spine Sports And Rehabilitation imagines so! Santa can’t stop, and neither can you. Tonawanda chiropractic care can help you deal with new back pain and chronic back pain and lead our Tonawanda back pain sufferers to live a bit more fear-lessly and confidently this holiday season.
FEAR OF BENDING
Your Tonawanda chiropractor realizes this: many low back pain patients fear bending forward. Researchers studied this common clinical finding and found that this fear of bending forward also influences postural sway or balance by disrupting hip balance control, bringing about weight shifting from side to side to maintain balance. (1) What is an undesirable consequence of being unbalanced? A fall. Chiropractic Spine Sports And Rehabilitation finds it very critical to help our back pain patients – especially our older back pain patients – to keep their balance!
HELP TO KEEP BALANCE AND REDUCE FEAR
“There’s an app for that!” Just what our older Tonawanda chiropractic patients with balance issues want to hear?! As much as “tech” can frustrate a few of its users, especially some older users, it can help! The novel smartphone-based Gait&Balance App is accessible. Researchers have verified that it is able to assess age-related differences in balance not typically picked up during clinical exam measurements like postural stability, step time, step length and cycle. (2) These insights can help healthcare providers like your chiropractor design a more effective and individualized treatment plan to decrease fear of movement and enhanced balance. This is quite hopeful, so much so that chiropractic researchers are doing more research study to measure the benefits of multimodal chiropractic care in its ability to influence gait, balance and/or fall risk and prevention. (3) One encouraging study with older lumbar spinal stenosis patients (average age 83.5 years) found that their postural sway and entropy as well as function and symptomatology were improved with a course of chiropractic care including Cox® Technic Flexion Distraction Decompression spinal manipulation. (4) Chiropractic Spine Sports And Rehabilitation uses this treatment along with nutrition and exercise to keep our chiropractic patients moving, fearless, and balanced!
BIOMARKERS FOR BACK PAIN
A new nutrition discovery this month may also help this effort. It comes from researchers analyzing levels of biomarkers – C-reactive protein, vitamin D, neuropeptide Y and others - in low back pain patients tested using blood tests with pain and disability. Vitamin D which appears in many health news reports today also seems to be a potential biomarker for back pain relief and disability. A reliable randomized control study found a correlation between vitamin D levels and changes in both pain and disability for low back pain patients cared for with spinal manipulation. (5) Some day, we may do blood tests to manage risks for back pain!
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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Joel Dixon on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he describes his helping a Vietnam veteran manage his back pain for 20 years, incorporating the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.
Schedule your Tonawanda chiropractic appointment soon. Calling all our Tonawanda back pain patients! Bring us your back pain and your fear of back pain, bending and falling. We can help you handle them as well as Santa fearlessly and efficiently delivers all his presents in one night!
