Aaron Chiropractic Clinic Manages Back Pain Fear with our Chiropractic Patients
Had back pain before? Yes? It’s common to fear its return, but do not let it stop your life! This time of year, just think of Santa. Think he’s experienced back pain before delivering all those packages and parcels? Aaron Chiropractic Clinic imagines so! Santa cannot stop, and neither can you. Fort Wayne chiropractic care can help manage new back pain and chronic back pain and lead our Fort Wayne back pain sufferers to live a bit more fear-lessly and confidently this holiday season.
FEAR OF BENDING
Your Fort Wayne 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, bringing about weight shifting from side to side to keep balance. (1) What is an undesirable consequence of being unbalanced? A fall. Aaron Chiropractic Clinic finds it very important to help our back pain patients – especially our older back pain patients – to keep their balance!
HELP TO KEEP BALANCE AND DECREASE FEAR
“There’s an app for that!” Just what our older Fort Wayne 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 new smartphone-based Gait&Balance App is offered. 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 assist healthcare providers like your chiropractor design a more effective and individualized treatment plan to decrease fear of movement and increase 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 better with a course of chiropractic care including Cox® Technic Flexion Distraction Decompression spinal manipulation. (4) Aaron Chiropractic Clinic offers this treatment along with nutrition and exercise to keep our chiropractic patients moving, fearless, and balanced!
BIOMARKERS FOR BACK PAIN
One new nutrition finding this month may also aid this effort. It comes from researchers evaluating 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 reliable randomized control study found a relationship between vitamin D levels and changes in both pain and disability for low back pain patients cared for 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 describes his helping a Vietnam veteran manage his back pain for 20 years, incorporating the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.
Schedule your Fort Wayne chiropractic appointment now. Calling all our Fort Wayne 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 packages in one night!
