Manahawkin Chiropractic Center Manages Back Pain Fear with our Chiropractic Patients
Have you experienced back pain before? Yes? It’s natural to fear its return, but do not let it slow you down! This holiday season, consider Santa. Think he’s experienced back pain before lugging all those packages and parcels? Manahawkin Chiropractic Center imagines so! Santa can’t stop, and neither can you. Manahawkin chiropractic care can help you deal with new back pain and chronic back pain and direct our Manahawkin back pain sufferers to live a bit more fear-lessly and confidently this holiday season.
FEAR OF BENDING
Your Manahawkin 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 influences postural sway or balance by disrupting hip balance control, bringing about weight shifting from side to side to maintain balance. (1) What’s an unwanted effect of being unbalanced? A fall. Manahawkin Chiropractic Center finds it very critical to help our back pain patients – especially our older back pain patients – stay balanced and upright!
HELP TO KEEP BALANCE AND DECREASE FEAR
“There’s an app for that!” Just what our older Manahawkin chiropractic patients with balance issues want to hear?! As much as “tech” can annoy some of its users, particularly some older users, it can help! The novel smartphone-based Gait&Balance App is accessible. 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 reduce fear of movement and enhanced balance. This is quite hopeful, so much so that chiropractic researchers are exerting more research effort to measure 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) Manahawkin Chiropractic Center 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 help 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 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 correlation between vitamin D levels and changes in both pain and disability for low back pain patients treated with spinal manipulation. (5) One day, we may do blood tests to check for back pain risks!
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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 manage his back pain for 20 years, incorporating the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.
Schedule your Manahawkin chiropractic appointment today. Calling all our Manahawkin 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 presents in a single night!
