Vancouver Disc Centers Manages Back Pain Fear with our Chiropractic Patients
Had back pain before? Yes? It is natural to fear its return, but don’t let it hijack your life! This time of year, just think of Santa. Think he’s felt back pain before throwing all those packages and parcels? Vancouver Disc Centers expects he has! Santa cannot stop, and neither can you. Vancouver chiropractic care can help manage new back pain and chronic back pain and guide our Vancouver back pain sufferers to be a bit less fearful and a bit more confident getting around this holiday season.
FEAR OF BENDING
Your Vancouver 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 disrupting hip balance control, causing weight shifting from side to side to keep balance. (1) What’s an unwanted result of being unbalanced? A fall. Vancouver Disc Centers finds it very critical to help our back pain patients – especially our older back pain patients – stay balanced and upright!
HELP TO KEEP BALANCE AND DECREASE FEAR
“There’s an app for that!” Just what our older Vancouver chiropractic patients with balance issues want to hear?! As much as “tech” can frustrate a few of its users, especially some older users, it can help! The novel smartphone-based Gait&Balance App is available. Researchers have verified that it is able to track age-related differences in balance not typically noted via 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 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 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) Vancouver Disc Centers offers 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 with 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 cared for with spinal manipulation. (5) Some 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 manage his back pain for 20 years, incorporating the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.
Make your Vancouver chiropractic appointment soon. Calling all our Vancouver back pain patients! Bring us your back pain and your fear of back pain, bending and falling. We can help you manage them as well as Santa fearlessly and efficiently delivers all his presents in one night!
