Amelia Chiropractic Clinic Manages Back Pain Fear with our Chiropractic Patients
Had back pain before? Yes? It is common to fear its return, but do not let it slow you down! This holiday season, consider Santa. Think he’s experienced back pain before throwing all those packages and parcels? Amelia Chiropractic Clinic expects he has! Santa can’t quit, and neither can you. Fernandina Beach chiropractic care can help manage new back pain and chronic back pain and guide our Fernandina Beach back pain sufferers to live a bit more fear-lessly and confidently this holiday season.
FEAR OF BENDING
Your Fernandina Beach chiropractor knows this: many low back pain patients fear bending forward. Researchers looked into 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’s an undesirable consequence of being unbalanced? A fall. Amelia Chiropractic Clinic 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 Fernandina Beach chiropractic patients with balance issues want to hear?! As much as “tech” can annoy a few of its users, especially some older users, it can help! The new smartphone-based Gait&Balance App is accessible. Researchers have verified that it is able to track age-related differences in balance not necessarily noted via clinical exam measurements like postural stability, step time, step length and cycle. (2) These insights can help 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 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) Amelia Chiropractic Clinic uses this treatment along with nutrition and exercise to help our patients keep moving fearlessly and balanced!
BIOMARKERS FOR BACK PAIN
One 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 with blood tests with pain and disability. Vitamin D which appears 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 cared for with spinal manipulation. (5) One 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 deal with his back pain for 20 years, incorporating the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.
Make your Fernandina Beach chiropractic appointment soon. Calling all our Fernandina Beach 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 presents in a single night!
