Johnson Chiropractic Calms Patients Fear Of Returned Back Pain With Chiropractic Care
KINESIOPHOBIA. Now, there’s a word! It denote fear that moving may cause pain. It is something your Richmond chiropractor works with Richmond back pain patients all the time. It’s vital to move and not fear movement. Life is motion. Motion is life. Movement is critical, and Johnson Chiropractic is all about getting our chiropractic patients moving and keeping them moving.
FEAR OF MOVING…AND MORE
Chronic back pain does not just alter the back and spine. It affects the back pain sufferer’s emotions and physicality, too. Kinesiophobia is a more extreme fear of pain or re-injury upon movement. Understandably such fear alters the back pain sufferer’s quality of life, disability and pain intensity. But just how much? Researchers report significantly. (1) Johnson Chiropractic understands. It’s reasonable to not want to trigger such back pain if one can avoid it. Johnson Chiropractic urges slow but sure return to usual life motions and to take it one day at a time.
MOVEMENT IS PART OF THE Richmond CHIROPRACTIC TREATMENT HEALING PLAN
Johnson Chiropractic shares that research studies revealed improvement in walking capacity with non-surgical care for patients with lumbar spinal stenosis. This would certainly be welcomed by Richmond back pain patients suffering with lumbar spine stenosis, the most common reason for spine surgery in US adults. Manual therapy and individualized exercise programs offered better short-term symptom improvement, physical function and walking capacity than medical care or group exercise. (2)
BALANCE, MUSCLE AND BACK PAIN
Individualized treatment plans are best to decrease pain and return motion and function. Doctors like your Richmond chiropractor at Johnson Chiropractic test muscle activation and balance ability with a one-legged balance posture in older patients and those with chronic low back pain because it is accepted that chronic low back pain patients and older people are different in their muscle responses to various physical tasks than those who do not have chronic low back pain. Chronic low back pain sufferers experience balance issues, too. Their trunk muscle activation during balance tasks is worse. (3) Johnson Chiropractic can find out much about Richmond back pain patient’s condition with some of the simplest tests…and individualize the treatment plan as required: Cox® Technic, nutrition and exercise.
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Listen to this PODCAST on The Back Doctors' Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson. Dr. Kyle Pankonin shares how he helped female farmer keep moving and maintaining her farm.
