Johnson Chiropractic Manages Back Pain Fear with our Chiropractic Patients
Have you experienced back pain before? Yes? It’s common to fear its return, but don’t 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? Johnson Chiropractic expects he has! Santa cannot stop, and neither can you. Richmond chiropractic care can help manage new back pain and chronic back pain and lead our Richmond back pain sufferers to be a bit less fearful and a bit more confident getting around this holiday season.
FEAR OF BENDING
Your Richmond chiropractor realizes 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 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 off-balance? A fall. Johnson Chiropractic 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 is an app for that!” Just what our older Richmond chiropractic patients with balance issues want to hear?! As much as “tech” can frustrate some of its users, especially some older users, it can help! The novel smartphone-based Gait&Balance App is available. Researchers have documented that it is able to measure age-related differences in balance not necessarily noted during clinical exam measurements like postural stability, step time, step length and cycle. (2) These insights can help healthcare providers like your chiropractor create a more effective and individualized treatment plan to decrease 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 influence 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 in addition to function and symptomatology were improved with a course of chiropractic care including Cox® Technic Flexion Distraction Decompression spinal manipulation. (4) Johnson Chiropractic uses this treatment along with nutrition and exercise to keep our chiropractic patients moving, fearless, and balanced!
BIOMARKERS FOR BACK PAIN
A new nutrition discovery this month may also help 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 via 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 link 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 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 illustrates his helping a Vietnam veteran deal with his back pain for 20 years, incorporating the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.
Make your Richmond chiropractic appointment today. Calling all our Richmond 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 presents in one night!
