Layden Chiropractic 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 slow you down! This holiday season, consider Santa. Think he’s felt back pain before moving all those packages and parcels? Layden Chiropractic expects he has! Santa cannot stop, and neither can you. Plainville chiropractic care can help manage new back pain and chronic back pain and lead our Plainville back pain sufferers to live a bit more fear-lessly and confidently this holiday season.
FEAR OF BENDING
Your Plainville 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 affects postural sway or balance by interfering with hip balance control, causing weight shifting from side to side to maintain balance. (1) What is an unwanted effect of being off-balance? A fall. Layden Chiropractic finds it very critical 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 Plainville 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 documented that it is able to track age-related differences in balance not typically noted 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 beneficial and individualized treatment plan to reduce fear of movement and increase 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 affect 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) Layden Chiropractic uses this treatment along with nutrition and exercise to keep our chiropractic patients moving, fearless, and balanced!
BIOMARKERS FOR BACK PAIN
One new nutrition discovery this month may also aid 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 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 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 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 deal with his back pain for 20 years, incorporating the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.
Make your Plainville chiropractic appointment now. Calling all our Plainville 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 a single night!
