Baton Rouge Fall Prevention and Pain Relief with Chiropractic Care
Falls can happen at any age. Falls can cause much harm or not much harm at all. Falling once surely 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. Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers always inquires our Baton Rouge chiropractic patients if they’ve fallen recently. Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers backs interventions like exercise that may decrease the fear of falls, the impact of falls and the incidence of falls. Plus, Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers is really good at relieving Baton Rouge back pain or neck pain that ensues.
OLDER FOLKS AND FALLS
Older folks reside at home alone and with others or in community-based housing. Each scenario carries a risk of falling. Rugs, pets, misreading steps, or any number of things can result in a fall. For these older folks, the fear of falling is not uncommon. Researchers have done research studies looking at exercise interventions that reduce the fear of falling and the risk of falling. Such trials with community-dwelling older persons incorporated planned, structured, repetitive physical activity geared toward enhancing strength, gait, balance and mood as well as decreasing falls. Some interventions tested are 3D 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% reduction in people who fell, a 13% decrease in falls, a 19% drop in injuries from falls. (1) Another study of aged 60-88 year olds that implemented a judo inspired exercise program which taught them how to fall and how to prevent falls revealed significant improvements in physical performance, fall-related self-efficacy and fall techniques. (2) They discovered that such practices worked, particularly immediately following the intervention. (3) Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers would support our older Baton Rouge patients’ continued exercising to prolong these fall-prevention and fall-fear-reducing advantages!
YOUNGER FOLKS AND FALLS
Younger folks can benefit from Baton Rouge fall prevention strategies as falls can 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 set out to improve physical function, activity, fall-related self-efficacy and safe-landing skills for a fall. Participants improved physically and psychologically. They practiced techniques in how to fall safely as well as how to stop falls. (4) Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers supports exercise for all Baton Rouge chiropractic family members, young and old, to keep strong and healthy in the face of challenges like falls. Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers 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 implementing The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.
Schedule your Baton Rouge chiropractic visit with Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers to take the fear out of falling, the pain out of a fall, and the risk of a fall and decrease it with some guidance on strengthening exercise in addition to back pain-relieving chiropractic care.
