Plainville Fear of Back Pain Relieved with Layden Chiropractic

Fear of the “damaged spine.” It’s a most common feeling to have about a lot of things in life. Fear avoidance. It’s common in Plainville back pain sufferers. When back pain becomes part of life, fear avoidant behavior also creeps in with it. Back pain specialists like your Plainville chiropractic physician recognize the effects of fear and fear avoidance on Plainville back pain and neck pain patients. Fear keeps Plainville back pain sufferers from doing the simplest things because they worry that they may experience pain. The spine is rather resilient, but when it is damaged its resiliency disappears in the mind of its owner. Layden Chiropractic assists Plainville back pain sufferers cope with the fear of back pain through information, care, and movement.

The Sense of Fear

Fear itself makes sense. If you have pain with something, you strive to avoid that something like shuffling paper in a way that you get a paper cut or bending a certain way that cauess leg pain. If you feel back pain when you move, you attempt not to move like that to avoid back pain. Avoiding back pain-producing activity for a Plainville back pain sufferer wanting to protect his or her damaged back makes good sense. Researchers point out though that if a back pain sufferer experiences pain in the early days of back pain and does not make a huge deal out of it, he or she does not get caught in trying to avoid movement, in the fear avoidance cycle. (1) Layden Chiropractic understands with the Plainville back pain patient who doesn’t want to move too much because of fear that his or her back will hurt again or maybe even worse than that last time. Layden Chiropractic positively gets Plainville back pain sufferers moving and performing their normal activities of daily life one small motion at a time!

Gentle Care and Motion

Layden Chiropractic incorporates motion into its in-office chiropractic care and its at-home recommendation care. Layden Chiropractic is all about motion and easing back pain and the fear that goes along with it. Incorporating manipulation to the treatment of low back pain earlier increased the effectiveness of manipulation on back pain relief and lowered the use of medication to manage the pain. (2) The Plainville chiropractic treatment plan at Layden Chiropractic includes gentle, comforting Cox Technic to open the spinal canal and lessen pressure on the spinal nerves as well as bring motion back to the spine as the back pain and/or leg pain eases.

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Fear may be a good thing, too. Fear of back surgery may get a back pain sufferer to seek non-surgical care like that offered at Layden Chiropractic. Listen in to this podcast of a patient who didn’t want a second back surgery and got relief with Cox Technic. He even returned to exercising and moving which he stopped due to pain!

Schedule a Plainville chiropractic appointment at Layden Chiropractic to ease your fear of your “damaged back” and help you start moving again!