Pure Chiropractic Manages Back Pain Fear with our Chiropractic Patients
Have you experienced back pain before? Yes? It is common to fear its recurrence, but don’t let it slow you down! This time of year, just think of Santa. Think he’s felt back pain before delivering all those packages and parcels? Pure Chiropractic expects he has! Santa can’t stop, and neither can you. Concord, NC chiropractic care can help manage new back pain and chronic back pain and guide our Concord, NC back pain sufferers to live a bit more fear-lessly and confidently this holiday season.
FEAR OF BENDING
Your Concord, NC chiropractor knows this: many low back pain patients fear bending forward. Researchers studied this common clinical finding and found that this fear of bending forward also affects postural sway or balance by disrupting hip balance control, causing weight shifting from side to side to keep balance. (1) What is an undesirable result of being off-balance? A fall. Pure Chiropractic finds it very critical 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 Concord, NC chiropractic patients with balance issues want to hear?! As much as “tech” can frustrate a few of its users, particularly some older users, it can help! The novel smartphone-based Gait&Balance App is accessible. Researchers have documented that it is able to track age-related differences in balance not necessarily noted via clinical exam measurements like postural stability, step time, step length and cycle. (2) These insights can help 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 doing more research study to measure the benefits of multimodal chiropractic care in its ability to influence 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 better with a course of chiropractic care including Cox® Technic Flexion Distraction Decompression spinal manipulation. (4) Pure 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 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 appears in many health news reports today also seems to be a potential biomarker for back pain relief and disability. A reliable 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 Pure 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 Concord, NC chiropractic appointment soon. Calling all our Concord, NC 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 presents in a single night!
