Most Chiropractic Clinic Manages Back Pain Fear with our Chiropractic Patients
Had back pain before? Yes? It’s natural to fear its recurrence, but do not let it hijack your life! This time of year, just think of Santa. Think he’s felt back pain before throwing all those packages and parcels? Most Chiropractic Clinic expects he has! Santa cannot stop, and neither can you. Murfreesboro chiropractic care can help manage new back pain and chronic back pain and lead our Murfreesboro back pain sufferers to be a bit less fearful and a bit more confident getting around this holiday season.
FEAR OF BENDING
Your Murfreesboro chiropractor knows this: many low back pain patients fear bending forward. Researchers analyzed this common clinical finding and found that this fear of bending forward also affects postural sway or balance by interfering with hip balance control, causing weight shifting from side to side to keep balance. (1) What is an unwanted effect of being unbalanced? A fall. Most Chiropractic Clinic finds it very important to help our back pain patients – especially our older back pain patients – to keep their balance!
HELP TO KEEP BALANCE AND REDUCE FEAR
“There is an app for that!” Just what our older Murfreesboro chiropractic patients with balance issues want to hear?! As much as “tech” can frustrate a few of its users, particularly some older users, it can help! The new smartphone-based Gait&Balance App is accessible. Researchers have verified that it is able to assess age-related differences in balance not necessarily 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 create 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 exerting more research effort to measure the benefits of multimodal chiropractic care in its ability to influence gait, balance and/or fall risk and prevention. (3) One positive study with older lumbar spinal stenosis patients (average age 83.5 years) found that their postural sway and entropy in addition to function and symptomatology were improved with a course of chiropractic care including Cox® Technic Flexion Distraction Decompression spinal manipulation. (4) Most Chiropractic Clinic 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 aid this effort. It comes from researchers evaluating levels of biomarkers – C-reactive protein, vitamin D, neuropeptide Y and others - in low back pain patients tested via blood tests with pain and disability. Vitamin D which keeps appearing in many health news reports today also appears to be a potential biomarker for back pain relief and disability. A respected randomized control study found a link between vitamin D levels and changes in both pain and disability for low back pain patients treated with spinal manipulation. (5) One day, we may do blood tests to check for back pain risks!
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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Joel Dixon on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he illustrates his helping a Vietnam veteran manage his back pain for 20 years, incorporating the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.
Schedule your Murfreesboro chiropractic appointment soon. Calling all our Murfreesboro back pain patients! Bring us your back pain and your fear of back pain, bending and falling. We can help you manage them as well as Santa fearlessly and efficiently delivers all his packages in one night!
