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Chiropractic Care Manages Back Pain Fear with our Chiropractic Patients

Had back pain before? Yes? It is common to fear its return, but don’t let it slow you down! This time of year, just think of Santa. Think he’s experienced back pain before moving all those packages and parcels? Chiropractic Care imagines so! Santa can’t stop, and neither can you. West Palm Beach chiropractic care can help manage new back pain and chronic back pain and guide our West Palm Beach back pain sufferers to be a bit less fearful and a bit more confident getting around this holiday season.

FEAR OF BENDING

Your West Palm Beach chiropractor knows this: many low back pain patients fear bending forward. Researchers analyzed this common clinical finding and found that this fear of bending forward also influences postural sway or balance by disrupting hip balance control, causing weight shifting from side to side to maintain balance. (1) What is an unwanted effect of being unbalanced? A fall. Chiropractic Care finds it very important to help our back pain patients – especially our older back pain patients – to keep their balance!

HELP TO KEEP BALANCE AND REDUCE FEAR

“There’s an app for that!” Just what our older West Palm 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 available. Researchers have verified that it is able to track age-related differences in balance not necessarily picked up during clinical exam measurements like postural stability, step time, step length and cycle. (2) These insights can assist healthcare providers like your chiropractor create a more beneficial and individualized treatment plan to decrease fear of movement and improve 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 influence gait, balance and/or fall risk and prevention. (3) One encouraging 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 better with a course of chiropractic care including Cox® Technic Flexion Distraction Decompression spinal manipulation. (4) Chiropractic Care offers this treatment along with nutrition and exercise to keep our chiropractic patients moving, fearless, and balanced!

BIOMARKERS FOR BACK PAIN

A new nutrition finding this month may also help this effort. It comes from researchers analyzing levels of biomarkers – C-reactive protein, vitamin D, neuropeptide Y and others - in low back pain patients tested using blood tests with pain and disability. Vitamin D which keeps appearing 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 link 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!

CONTACT Chiropractic Care

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.

Schedule your West Palm Beach chiropractic appointment now. Calling all our West Palm Beach back pain patients! Bring us your back pain and your fear of back pain, bending and falling. We can help you handle them as well as Santa fearlessly and efficiently delivers all his packages in one night! 

 Chiropractic Care helps back pain sufferers control their fear of back pain recurrence and/or pain from moving with chiropractic care.
 
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