Tonawanda Fall Prevention and Pain Relief with Chiropractic Care
Falls can occur at any age. Falls can cause great harm or little harm at all. Falling once certainly can increase the level of fear of falling again. All these bits of information underscore that falls are am issue, an issue that is age blind. Chiropractic Spine Sports And Rehabilitation always asks our Tonawanda chiropractic patients if they have fallen lately. Chiropractic Spine Sports And Rehabilitation is in favor of interventions like exercise that may reduce the fear of falls, the impact of falls and the incidence of falls. Plus, Chiropractic Spine Sports And Rehabilitation is quite good at relieving Tonawanda back pain or neck pain that develops.
OLDER FOLKS AND FALLS
Older folks reside at home by themselves and with others or in community-based accommodations. Each situation carries a risk of falling. Rugs, pets, misreading steps, or any number of things can end in a fall. For these older folks, the fear of falling is usual. Researchers have done research studies involving exercise interventions that decrease the fear of falling and the risk of falling. Such trials with community-dwelling older persons involved planned, structured, repetitive physical activity geared toward improving strength, gait, balance and mood as well as decreasing falls. Some interventions tried are 3D,for example Tai Chi, Yoga, resistance training, and balance work. A meta-analysis of exercise trials presented non-statistically significant benefits but benefits even so: an 11% decrease in people who fell, a 13% drop in falls, a 19% reduction in injuries from falls. (1) Another study of aged 60-88 year olds that used a judo inspired exercise program which taught the participants how to fall and how to prevent falls revealed significant improvements in physical performance, fall-related self-efficacy and fall methods. (2) They found that such practices worked, particularly right after the intervention. (3) Chiropractic Spine Sports And Rehabilitation would support our older Tonawanda patients’ continued exercising to prolong these fall-prevention and fall-fear-reducing advantages!
YOUNGER FOLKS AND FALLS
Younger people can appreciate Tonawanda fall prevention strategies as falls may be detrimental to them, too. Falls and fall-related injuries put at risk people at all ages. Falls at work and at home are an issue. A workplace trial of 10 weeks for working age adults with a judo-inspired exercise program worked on improving physical function, activity, fall-related self-efficacy and safe-landing skills for a fall. Participants got better physically and psychologically. They practiced techniques in how to fall safely as well as how to prevent falls. (4) Chiropractic Spine Sports And Rehabilitation supports exercise for all Tonawanda chiropractic family members, young and old, to keep strong and healthy in the face of challenges like falls. Chiropractic Spine Sports And Rehabilitation helps ease fall-related back pain and neck pain, too.
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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Lee Hazen on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he describes helping a patient recover from pain after a fall using The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.
Schedule your Tonawanda chiropractic visit with Chiropractic Spine Sports And Rehabilitation to remove the fear of falling, the pain out of a fall, and the chance of a fall and decrease it with some advice on strengthening exercise along with back pain-relieving chiropractic care.
