Fernandina Beach Fall Prevention and Pain Relief with Chiropractic Care
Falls can happen at any age. Falls can trigger much harm or not much harm at all. Falling once surely can raise the intensity of fear of falling again. All these bits of information underscore that falls are a concern, a concern that is age blind. Amelia Chiropractic Clinic always questions our Fernandina Beach chiropractic patients if they’ve fallen recently. Amelia Chiropractic Clinic backs interventions like exercise that may reduce the fear of falls, the impact of falls and the incidence of falls. Plus, Amelia Chiropractic Clinic is quite good at relieving Fernandina Beach back pain or neck pain that develops.
OLDER FOLKS AND FALLS
Older folks live at home alone and with others or in community-based housing. Each scenario carries a risk of falling. Rugs, pets, misreading steps, or any number of things can cause a fall. For these older friends and neighbors and relatives, the fear of falling is not uncommon. Researchers have put effort into research studies involving exercise interventions that reduce the fear of falling and the risk of falling. Such trials with community-dwelling older folks encompassed planned, structured, repetitive physical activity oriented to enhancing strength, gait, balance and mood in addition to decreasing falls. Some interventions tested are 3D like Tai Chi, Yoga, resistance training, and balance work. A meta-analysis of exercise trials reported on non-statistically significant benefits but benefits nonetheless: an 11% decrease in people who fell, a 13% decrease in falls, a 19% drop in injuries from falls. (1) Another study of aged 60-88 year olds that implemented a judo inspired exercise program which taught the participants how to fall and how to prevent falls showed significant improvements in physical performance, fall-related self-efficacy and fall techniques. (2) They reported that such practices worked, particularly right after the intervention. (3) Amelia Chiropractic Clinic would encourage our older Fernandina Beach patients to keep exercising to extend these fall-prevention and fall-fear-reducing advantages!
YOUNGER FOLKS AND FALLS
Younger people can benefit from Fernandina Beach fall prevention strategies as falls can be just as detrimental to them. Falls and fall-related injuries endanger people at all ages. Falls at work and at home are an issue. A workplace trial that lasted 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 skills for a fall. Participants recovered physically and psychologically. They practiced techniques in how to fall safely as well as how to avert falls. (4) Amelia Chiropractic Clinic supports exercise for all Fernandina Beach chiropractic family members, young and old, to keep strong and healthy in the face of challenges like falls. Amelia Chiropractic Clinic helps relieve 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 Fernandina Beach chiropractic visit with Amelia Chiropractic Clinic to remove the fear of falling, the pain out of a fall, and the risk of a fall and decrease it with some guidance on strengthening exercise in addition to back pain-relieving chiropractic care.
