Minster Chiropractic Center Manages Back Pain Fear with our Chiropractic Patients
Have you experienced back pain before? Yes? It is common to fear its return, but do not let it slow you down! This holiday season, consider Santa. Think he’s experienced back pain before throwing all those packages and parcels? Minster Chiropractic Center imagines so! Santa can’t stop, and neither can you. Minster chiropractic care can help manage new back pain and chronic back pain and lead our Minster back pain sufferers to live a bit more fear-lessly and confidently this holiday season.
FEAR OF BENDING
Your Minster 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 affects postural sway or balance by interfering with hip balance control, causing weight shifting from side to side to keep balance. (1) What is an undesirable consequence of being off-balance? A fall. Minster Chiropractic Center finds it very important to help our back pain patients – especially our older back pain patients – stay balanced and upright!
HELP TO KEEP BALANCE AND REDUCE FEAR
“There’s an app for that!” Just what our older Minster 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 novel smartphone-based Gait&Balance App is offered. Researchers have verified that it is able to measure age-related differences in balance not typically 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 design a more effective and individualized treatment plan to decrease 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 as well as function and symptomatology were improved with a course of chiropractic care including Cox® Technic Flexion Distraction Decompression spinal manipulation. (4) Minster Chiropractic Center uses this treatment along with nutrition and exercise to help our patients keep moving fearlessly 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 appears to be a potential biomarker for back pain relief and disability. A respected randomized control study found a relationship 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 manage risks for back pain!
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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 Minster chiropractic appointment soon. Calling all our Minster 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!
