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Manahawkin Fear of Back Pain Relieved with Manahawkin Chiropractic Center

Fear of the “damaged spine.” It is a most common feeling to have about a lot of things in life. Fear avoidance. It is common in Manahawkin back pain sufferers. When back pain becomes part of life, fear avoidant behavior also creeps in with it. Back pain specialists like your Manahawkin chiropractic physician are aware of the effects of fear and fear avoidance on Manahawkin back pain and neck pain patients. Fear prevents Manahawkin back pain sufferers from doing the simplest things because they worry that they may hurt. The spine is rather resilient, but when it is damaged its resiliency disappears in the mind of its owner. Manahawkin Chiropractic Center assists Manahawkin back pain sufferers manage the fear of back pain through information, care, and movement.

The Sense of Fear

Fear itself makes sense. If you experience pain with something, you try to avoid that something like shuffling paper in a way that you get a paper cut or bending a certain way that elicits leg pain. If you suffer with back pain when you move, you seek not to move like that to avoid back pain. Avoiding back pain-provoking activity for a Manahawkin back pain sufferer wanting to protect his or her damaged back makes good sense. Researchers point out though that if a back pain sufferer feels pain in the early days of back pain and doesn’t make a huge deal out of it, he or she doesn’t get caught in trying to avoid movement, in the fear avoidance cycle. (1) Manahawkin Chiropractic Center empathizes with the Manahawkin back pain patient who does not desire to move too much because of fear that his or her back will hurt again or maybe even worse than before. Manahawkin Chiropractic Center successfully gets Manahawkin back pain sufferers moving and performing their normal activities of daily life one little motion at a time!

Gentle Care and Motion

Manahawkin Chiropractic Center incorporates motion into its in-office chiropractic care and its at-home recommendation care. Manahawkin Chiropractic Center is all about motion and easing back pain and the fear that goes along with it. Adding manipulation to the treatment of low back pain earlier sped up the success of manipulation on back pain relief and lowered the use of medication to control the pain. (2) The Manahawkin chiropractic treatment plan at Manahawkin Chiropractic Center involves gentle, soothing Cox Technic to open the spinal canal and relieve pressure on the spinal nerves as well as bring motion back to the spine as the back pain and/or leg pain improves.

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Fear may be a good thing, too. Fear of back surgery may spur a back pain sufferer to pursue non-surgical care as available at Manahawkin Chiropractic Center. Listen in to this podcast of a patient who didn’t want a second back surgery and found relief with Cox Technic. He even got back to exercising and moving which he stopped due to pain!

Schedule a Manahawkin chiropractic appointment at Manahawkin Chiropractic Center to ease your fear of your “damaged back” and help you start moving again!

 
 
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