Young Chiropractic Manages Back Pain Fear with our Chiropractic Patients
Have you experienced back pain before? Yes? It is natural to fear its recurrence, but do not let it hijack your life! This holiday season, consider Santa. Think he’s experienced back pain before throwing all those boxes and bags? Young Chiropractic imagines so! Santa can’t quit, and neither can you. Easley chiropractic care can help you deal with new back pain and chronic back pain and guide our Easley back pain sufferers to live a bit more fear-lessly and confidently this holiday season.
FEAR OF BENDING
Your Easley 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, bringing about weight shifting from side to side to keep balance. (1) What’s an undesirable effect of being unbalanced? A fall. Young Chiropractic finds it very important to help our back pain patients – especially our older back pain patients – stay balanced and upright!
HELP TO KEEP BALANCE AND DECREASE FEAR
“There is an app for that!” Just what our older Easley 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 new smartphone-based Gait&Balance App is offered. Researchers have documented that it is able to measure age-related differences in balance not necessarily noted during clinical exam measurements like postural stability, step time, step length and cycle. (2) These insights can assist healthcare providers like your chiropractor design a more beneficial and individualized treatment plan to decrease fear of movement and increase balance. This is quite hopeful, so much so that chiropractic researchers are doing more research study to quantify 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 as well as function and symptomatology were better with a course of chiropractic care including Cox® Technic Flexion Distraction Decompression spinal manipulation. (4) Young Chiropractic offers this treatment along with nutrition and exercise to help our patients keep moving fearlessly and balanced!
BIOMARKERS FOR BACK PAIN
One new nutrition finding 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 via 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 respected randomized control study found a correlation between vitamin D levels and changes in both pain and disability for low back pain patients treated 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 illustrates his helping a Vietnam veteran manage his back pain for 20 years, incorporating the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.
Make your Easley chiropractic appointment today. Calling all our Easley 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 packages in a single night!
