Minster Fall Prevention and Pain Relief with Chiropractic Care
Falls can occur at any age. Falls can trigger much harm or little harm at all. Falling once surely can raise the level of fear of falling again. All these bits of information highlight the fact that falls are a concern, a concern that is age blind. Minster Chiropractic Center always asks our Minster chiropractic patients if they’ve fallen lately. Minster Chiropractic Center is in favor of interventions like exercise that may reduce the fear of falls, the impact of falls and the incidence of falls. Plus, Minster Chiropractic Center is quite good at relieving Minster back pain or neck pain that develops.
OLDER FOLKS AND FALLS
Older folks live at home alone and with others or in community-based housing. Each situation has a risk of falling. Rugs, pets, misreading steps, or any number of things can cause a fall. For these older friends and neighbors and relatives, the fear of falling is usual. Researchers have put effort into research studies involving exercise interventions that reduce the fear of falling and the risk of falling. Such trials with community-dwelling older folks incorporated planned, structured, repetitive physical activity oriented to improving strength, gait, balance and mood as well as decreasing falls. Some interventions tested are 3D,for example Tai Chi, Yoga, resistance training, and balance work. A meta-analysis of exercise trials detailed non-statistically significant benefits but benefits even so: an 11% reduction in people who fell, a 13% decrease in falls, a 19% decrease in injuries from falls. (1) Another study of people between 60 and 88 years old that implemented a judo inspired exercise program which taught them how to fall and how to prevent falls showed significant improvements in physical performance, fall-related self-efficacy and fall techniques. (2) They discovered that such practices worked, particularly right after the intervention. (3) Minster Chiropractic Center would encourage our older Minster patients to keep exercising to prolong these fall-prevention and fall-fear-reducing advantages!
YOUNGER FOLKS AND FALLS
Younger folks can appreciate Minster fall prevention strategies as falls may be detrimental to them, too. Falls and fall-related injuries threaten people at all ages. Falls at work and at home are an issue. A workplace trial that lasted 10 weeks for working age adults with a judo-inspired exercise program was designed to improve physical function, activity, fall-related self-efficacy and safe-landing skills for a fall. Participants improved physically and psychologically. They gathered techniques in how to fall safely and how to stop falls. (4) Minster Chiropractic Center supports exercise for all Minster chiropractic family members, young and old, to keep strong and healthy in the face of challenges like falls. Minster Chiropractic Center helps ease fall-related back pain and neck pain, too.
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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Lee Hazen on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he describes helping a patient recover from pain after a fall following The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.
Schedule your Minster chiropractic visit with Minster Chiropractic Center to remove the fear of falling, the pain out of a fall, and the chance of a fall and decrease it with some guidance on strengthening exercise in addition to back pain-relieving chiropractic care.
