Vancouver Fall Prevention and Pain Relief with Chiropractic Care
Falls can happen at any age. Falls can trigger great harm or little harm at all. Falling once certainly can raise the level of fear of falling again. All these bits of information indicate that falls are a concern, a concern that is age blind. Vancouver Disc Centers always questions our Vancouver chiropractic patients if they’ve fallen recently. Vancouver Disc Centers is in favor of interventions like exercise that may decrease the fear of falls, the impact of falls and the incidence of falls. Plus, Vancouver Disc Centers is really good at relieving Vancouver back pain or neck pain that develops.
OLDER FOLKS AND FALLS
Older folks live at home by themselves and with others or in community-based accommodations. Each situation has a risk of falling. Rugs, pets, misreading steps, or any number of things can cause a fall. For these older friends and neighbors and relatives, the fear of falling is not uncommon. Researchers have put effort into 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 improving strength, gait, balance and mood as well as decreasing falls. Some interventions tested are three dimensional,for example Tai Chi, Yoga, resistance training, and balance work. A meta-analysis of exercise trials presented non-statistically significant benefits but benefits nonetheless: an 11% drop in people who fell, a 13% reduction in falls, a 19% decrease in injuries from falls. (1) Another study of aged 60-88 year olds that implemented a judo inspired exercise program which taught the participants how to fall and how to prevent falls showed significant improvements in physical performance, fall-related self-efficacy and fall techniques. (2) They reported that such practices worked, particularly immediately following the intervention. (3) Vancouver Disc Centers would support our older Vancouver patients’ continued exercising to prolong these fall-prevention and fall-fear-reducing benefits!
YOUNGER FOLKS AND FALLS
Younger folks can benefit from Vancouver fall prevention strategies as falls may be just as detrimental to them. Falls and fall-related injuries jeopardize people at all ages. Falls at work and at home are an issue. A workplace trial that lasted 10 weeks for working age adults with a judo-inspired exercise program was designed to improve physical function, activity, fall-related self-efficacy and safe-landing methods for a fall. Participants got better physically and psychologically. They practiced techniques in how to fall safely as well as how to avert falls. (4) Vancouver Disc Centers supports exercise for all Vancouver chiropractic family members, young and old, to keep strong and healthy in the face of challenges like falls. Vancouver Disc Centers helps alleviate 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 Vancouver chiropractic visit with Vancouver Disc 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 advice on strengthening exercise as well as back pain-relieving chiropractic care.
