Fort Wayne Fall Prevention and Pain Relief with Chiropractic Care
Falls can happen at any age. Falls can cause much harm or little harm at all. Falling once certainly can raise the intensity of fear of falling again. All these bits of information underscore that falls are a concern, a concern that is age blind. Aaron Chiropractic Clinic always asks our Fort Wayne chiropractic patients if they’ve fallen lately. Aaron Chiropractic Clinic is in favor of interventions like exercise that may decrease the fear of falls, the impact of falls and the incidence of falls. Plus, Aaron Chiropractic Clinic is quite good at relieving Fort Wayne back pain or neck pain that results.
OLDER FOLKS AND FALLS
Older folks live at home by themselves and with others or in community-based housing. Each scenario has a risk of falling. Rugs, pets, misreading steps, or any number of things can end in a fall. For these older folks, the fear of falling is not unusual. Researchers have done research studies involving exercise interventions that decrease the fear of falling and the risk of falling. Such trials with community-dwelling older folks encompassed planned, structured, repetitive physical activity oriented to improving strength, gait, balance and mood as well as decreasing falls. Some interventions tested are three dimensional like Tai Chi, Yoga, resistance training, and balance work. One meta-analysis of exercise trials detailed non-statistically significant benefits but benefits even so: an 11% decrease in people who fell, a 13% reduction in falls, a 19% drop 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 found that such practices worked, particularly right after the intervention. (3) Aaron Chiropractic Clinic would support our older Fort Wayne patients’ continued exercising to prolong these fall-prevention and fall-fear-reducing benefits!
YOUNGER FOLKS AND FALLS
Younger folks can benefit from Fort Wayne fall prevention strategies as falls may be just as detrimental to them. Falls and fall-related injuries put at risk people at all ages. Falls at work and at home are a problem. 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 techniques for a fall. Participants recovered physically and psychologically. They learned techniques in how to fall safely as well as how to stop falls. (4) Aaron Chiropractic Clinic supports exercise for all Fort Wayne chiropractic family members, young and old, to keep strong and healthy in the face of challenges like falls. Aaron Chiropractic Clinic 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 due to a fall using The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.
Schedule your Fort Wayne chiropractic visit with Aaron Chiropractic Clinic to remove the fear of falling, the pain out of a fall, and the risk of a fall and decrease it with some advice on strengthening exercise as well as back pain-relieving chiropractic care.
