Plainville Fall Prevention and Pain Relief with Chiropractic Care
Falls can happen at any age. Falls can cause great harm or little harm at all. Falling once surely can increase the level of fear of falling again. All these bits of information highlight the fact that falls are a concern, a concern that is age blind. Layden Chiropractic always asks our Plainville chiropractic patients if they’ve fallen recently. Layden Chiropractic backs interventions like exercise that may decrease the fear of falls, the impact of falls and the incidence of falls. Plus, Layden Chiropractic is quite good at relieving Plainville back pain or neck pain that results.
OLDER FOLKS AND FALLS
Older folks reside at home alone 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 result in a fall. For these older friends and neighbors and relatives, the fear of falling is usual. Researchers have done research studies looking at exercise interventions that reduce the fear of falling and the risk of falling. Such trials with community-dwelling older folks involved planned, structured, repetitive physical activity oriented to enhancing strength, gait, balance and mood as well as decreasing falls. Some interventions tested are three dimensional,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% reduction in falls, a 19% drop in injuries from falls. (1) Another study of aged 60-88 year olds that used a judo inspired exercise program which taught them how to fall and how to prevent falls showed significant improvements in physical performance, fall-related self-efficacy and fall techniques. (2) They found that such practices worked, particularly immediately following the intervention. (3) Layden Chiropractic would support our older Plainville patients’ continued exercising to extend these fall-prevention and fall-fear-reducing advantages!
YOUNGER FOLKS AND FALLS
Younger people can benefit from Plainville fall prevention strategies as falls may be just as detrimental to them. Falls and fall-related injuries endanger people at all ages. Falls at work and at home are a problem. A workplace trial of 10 weeks for working age adults with a judo-inspired exercise program was designed to improve physical function, activity, fall-related self-efficacy and safe-landing techniques for a fall. Participants recovered physically and psychologically. They gained techniques in how to fall safely and how to avert falls. (4) Layden Chiropractic supports exercise for all Plainville chiropractic family members, young and old, to keep strong and healthy in the face of challenges like falls. Layden Chiropractic 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 Plainville chiropractic visit with Layden Chiropractic to take the fear out of falling, the pain out of a fall, and the chance of a fall and decrease it with some guidance on strengthening exercise along with back pain-relieving chiropractic care.
