Back And Neck Care Center Manages Back Pain Fear with our Chiropractic Patients

Had back pain before? Yes? It’s common to fear its return, but don’t let it hijack your life! This time of year, just think of Santa. Think he’s experienced back pain before delivering all those packages and parcels? Back And Neck Care Center expects he has! Santa can’t quit, and neither can you. Severna Park chiropractic care can help you deal with new back pain and chronic back pain and direct our Severna Park back pain sufferers to live a bit more fear-lessly and confidently this holiday season.

FEAR OF BENDING

Your Severna Park 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 influences 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 effect of being unbalanced? A fall. Back And Neck Care Center finds it very critical to help our back pain patients – especially our older back pain patients – to keep their balance!

HELP TO KEEP BALANCE AND REDUCE FEAR

“There is an app for that!” Just what our older Severna Park chiropractic patients with balance issues want to hear?! As much as “tech” can annoy a few of its users, particularly some older users, it can help! The novel smartphone-based Gait&Balance App is available. Researchers have verified that it is able to assess age-related differences in balance not typically picked up via clinical exam measurements like postural stability, step time, step length and cycle. (2) These insights can help healthcare providers like your chiropractor design a more beneficial and individualized treatment plan to reduce fear of movement and improve balance.  This is quite hopeful, so much so that chiropractic researchers are doing more research study to quantify the benefits of multimodal chiropractic care in its ability to affect gait, balance and/or fall risk and prevention. (3) One encouraging 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) Back And Neck Care Center offers this treatment along with nutrition and exercise to help our patients keep moving fearlessly and balanced!

BIOMARKERS FOR BACK PAIN

One new nutrition finding this month may also aid 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 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 treated with spinal manipulation. (5) One day, we may do blood tests to check for back pain risks!

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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 deal with his back pain for 20 years, incorporating the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.

Schedule your Severna Park chiropractic appointment soon. Calling all our Severna Park 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 a single night! 

 Back And Neck Care Center helps back pain sufferers control their fear of back pain recurrence and/or pain from moving with chiropractic care.
 
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