Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers 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 holiday season, consider Santa. Think he’s had back pain before throwing all those boxes and bags? Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers expects he has! Santa cannot quit, and neither can you. Baton Rouge chiropractic care can help manage new back pain and chronic back pain and direct our Baton Rouge back pain sufferers to be a bit less fearful and a bit more confident getting around this holiday season.
FEAR OF BENDING
Your Baton Rouge chiropractor realizes this: many low back pain patients fear bending forward. Researchers studied 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 maintain balance. (1) What’s an unwanted result of being off-balance? A fall. Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers 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 REDUCE FEAR
“There is an app for that!” Just what our older Baton Rouge 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 track age-related differences in balance not typically picked up during 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 effective and individualized treatment plan to reduce fear of movement and enhanced 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 influence 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 improved with a course of chiropractic care including Cox® Technic Flexion Distraction Decompression spinal manipulation. (4) Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers uses 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 using blood tests with pain and disability. Vitamin D which keeps appearing in many health news reports today also appears to be a potential biomarker for back pain relief and disability. A reliable randomized control study found a correlation between vitamin D levels and changes in both pain and disability for low back pain patients cared for 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 manage his back pain for 20 years, incorporating the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.
Make your Baton Rouge chiropractic appointment soon. Calling all our Baton Rouge 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!
