Amelia Chiropractic Clinic Helps Back Pain Sufferers Fight Fear Avoidance and Move More
Fear of back pain? Once you have had it, you answer “yes!” Your Fernandina Beach chiropractor totally understands it. Fernandina Beach back pain and neck pain patients do not want to feel that pain again. Amelia Chiropractic Clinic helps spine pain sufferers regain their confidence with encouragement and exercise.
FEAR AVOIDANCE DUE TO BACK PAIN
Back pain sufferers don't want to revisit back pain if they have any options at all. That desire - whether obvious or subtle, stated or just ruminated in the mind – establishes the situation for a behavior called fear-avoidance. Patients with persistent spinal pain syndrome - post-surgically generated or not – provoked high levels of fear avoidance, anxiety, and depression. (1) Researchers explained that the pain experience isn't just physical as emotions, behaviors and beliefs are mixed in, too. Fear avoidant behavior like fearing the act of lifting an object grows and affects muscle behavior without realizing it. A recent study compared fear-avoidant beliefs and the lumbar spine paraspinal muscle activity use while lifting in both back pain and in pain-free volunteers. Fear of lifting an object with a flexed spine as described in a questionnaire was negatively related with erector spinae activity to protect the spine from injury. The proper way to lift has been debated through the years. Lifting with a straight back has been described as safer than lifting with a flexed back though research has not necessarily supported that while lifting with a lordotic posture has been reported to result in more erector spinae muscle activity giving rise to muscle fatigue and pain. (2) Amelia Chiropractic Clinic knows the importance of handling fear avoidance and its link to better quality of life.
HOW TO MANAGE FEAR AVOIDANCE
Researchers wrote that back pain sufferers today ‘get’ that they must keep active but some require a bit more support and encouragement to move and exercise due to a lack of confidence in their bodies’ ability to exercise without causing pain. The healthcare provider not only can give the latest findings on pain control but also coach the back pain patient to be physical in the safest way possible. (3) If you’re that patient, Amelia Chiropractic Clinic is your coach! We are a team and can help you move better and with less fear and provide gentle, relieving spinal manipulation. Three months of chiropractic manipulation along with exercise for older adults with chronic back pain boosted their self-efficacy and fear-avoidant behaviors as well as reductions in disability. A 30% or more drop in the Oswestry Disability Index indicated positive response to care. (4) The more engaged a patient is with treatment, the greater the influence on the feeling of self-efficacy and disability reduction. (5) Let’s work together to control your Fernandina Beach back pain so it doesn’t control you.
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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Tom Menendez on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he illustrates the relief with The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management for an older patient with back pain for whom fear avoidance is logical.
Schedule your Fernandina Beach chiropractic appointment soon so that if you are questioned whether you fear back pain, you can say “no”!
