Vancouver Fear of Back Pain Relieved with Vancouver Disc Centers
Fear of the “damaged spine.” It’s a most common feeling to have about any number of things in life. Fear avoidance. It is common for Vancouver back pain sufferers. When back pain becomes part of life, fear avoidant behavior also creeps in with it. Back pain specialists like your Vancouver chiropractic physician are aware of the effects of fear and fear avoidance on Vancouver back pain and neck pain patients. Fear keeps Vancouver back pain sufferers from doing the simplest things because they worry that they may hurt. The spine is rather resilient, but when it is damaged its sturdiness fades in the mind of its owner. Vancouver Disc Centers assists Vancouver back pain sufferers cope with the fear of back pain through information, care, and movement.
The Sense of Fear
Fear itself makes sense. If you suffer pain with something, you attempt to avoid that something like shuffling paper in a way that you get a paper cut or bending a certain way that elicits leg pain. If you experience back pain when you move, you seek not to move like that to avoid back pain. Avoiding back pain-provoking activity for a Vancouver back pain sufferer wanting to protect his or her damaged back makes good sense. Researchers explain though that if a back pain sufferer experiences pain in the early days of back pain and doesn’t make a huge deal out of it, he or she does not get caught in trying to avoid movement, in the fear avoidance cycle. (1) Vancouver Disc Centers empathizes with the Vancouver back pain patient who doesn’t desire to move too much due to fear that his or her back will hurt again or maybe even worse than before. Vancouver Disc Centers positively gets Vancouver back pain sufferers moving and doing their normal activities of daily life one little motion at a time!
Gentle Care and Motion
Vancouver Disc Centers joins motion into its in-office chiropractic care and its at-home recommendation care. Vancouver Disc Centers is all about motion and relieving back pain and the fear that accompanies it. Incorporating manipulation to the treatment of low back pain earlier enhanced the success of manipulation on back pain relief and decreased the use of medication to manage the pain. (2) The Vancouver chiropractic treatment plan at Vancouver Disc Centers encompasses gentle, comforting Cox Technic to open the spinal canal and lessen pressure on the spinal nerves as well as bring motion back to the spine as the back pain and/or leg pain improves.
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Fear may be a good thing, too. Fear of back surgery may get a back pain sufferer to seek non-surgical care like that offered at Vancouver Disc Centers. Listen in to this podcast of a patient who did not want a second back surgery and got relief with Cox Technic. He even returned to exercising and moving which he quit due to pain!
Schedule a Vancouver chiropractic appointment at Vancouver Disc Centers to ease your fear of your “damaged back” and help you start moving again!
