Minster Fear of Back Pain Relieved with Minster 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 Minster back pain sufferers. When back pain becomes part of life, fear avoidant behavior tends to creep in with it. Back pain specialists like your Minster chiropractic physician are aware of the influences of fear and fear avoidance on Minster back pain and neck pain patients. Fear keeps Minster back pain sufferers from doing the simplest things because they worry that they may experience pain. The spine is rather sturdy, but when it’s damaged its sturdiness disappears in the mind of its owner. Minster Chiropractic Center helps Minster back pain sufferers contain the fear of back pain through information, care, and movement.
The Sense of Fear
Fear itself makes sense. If you feel 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 aggravates leg pain. If you feel back pain when you move, you attempt not to move like that to avoid back pain. Avoiding back pain-provoking activity for a Minster 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 does not make a huge deal out of it, he or she doesn’t get trapped in trying to avoid movement, in the fear avoidance cycle. (1) Minster Chiropractic Center understands with the Minster back pain patient who doesn’t desire to move too much out of fear that his or her back will hurt again or maybe even worse than before. Minster Chiropractic Center positively gets Minster back pain sufferers moving and doing their normal activities of daily life one tiny motion at a time!
Gentle Care and Motion
Minster Chiropractic Center integrates motion into its in-office chiropractic care and its at-home recommendation care. Minster Chiropractic Center is all about motion and relieving back pain and the fear that goes along with it. Incorporating manipulation to the treatment of low back pain earlier sped up the effectiveness of manipulation on back pain relief and lowered the use of medication to control the pain. (2) The Minster chiropractic treatment plan at Minster Chiropractic Center includes gentle, soothing Cox Technic to open the spinal canal and lighten 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 seek non-surgical care as available at Minster Chiropractic Center. Listen in to this podcast of a patient who didn’t want a second back surgery and got relief with Cox Technic. He even returned to exercising and moving which he quit due to pain!
Schedule a Minster chiropractic appointment at Minster Chiropractic Center to lessen your fear of your “damaged back” and get you moving!
