Apple Country Chiropractic Manages Back Pain Fear with our Chiropractic Patients
Had back pain before? Yes? It is natural to fear its return, but don’t let it stop your life! This holiday season, consider Santa. Think he’s felt back pain before moving all those packages and parcels? Apple Country Chiropractic imagines so! Santa cannot stop, and neither can you. Williamson chiropractic care can help manage new back pain and chronic back pain and guide our Williamson back pain sufferers to be a bit less fearful and a bit more confident getting around this holiday season.
FEAR OF BENDING
Your Williamson 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 interfering with hip balance control, causing weight shifting from side to side to maintain balance. (1) What is an undesirable consequence of being off-balance? A fall. Apple Country Chiropractic 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 Williamson 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 new smartphone-based Gait&Balance App is accessible. Researchers have verified that it is able to assess age-related differences in balance not typically noted during clinical exam measurements like postural stability, step time, step length and cycle. (2) These insights can help healthcare providers like your chiropractor design a more beneficial and individualized treatment plan to reduce fear of movement and improve balance. This is quite hopeful, so much so that chiropractic researchers are exerting more research effort to quantify the benefits of multimodal chiropractic care in its ability to affect gait, balance and/or fall risk and prevention. (3) One positive 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 improved with a course of chiropractic care including Cox® Technic Flexion Distraction Decompression spinal manipulation. (4) Apple Country Chiropractic uses 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 aid 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 with blood tests with pain and disability. Vitamin D which keeps appearing in many health news reports today also seems 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) Some day, we may do blood tests to check for back pain risks!
CONTACT Apple Country Chiropractic
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 Williamson chiropractic appointment today. Calling all our Williamson back pain patients! Bring us your back pain and your fear of back pain, bending and falling. We can help you manage them as well as Santa fearlessly and efficiently delivers all his packages in one night!
