Vancouver Fear of Back Pain Relieved with Vancouver Disc Centers

Fear of the “damaged spine.” It’s a most common feeling to have about a lot of things in life. Fear avoidance. It is common for Vancouver back pain sufferers. When back pain enters the scene, 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 prevents Vancouver back pain sufferers from doing the simplest things out of concern that they may experience pain. The spine is pretty sturdy, but when it is damaged its sturdiness fades in the mind of its owner. Vancouver Disc Centers assists Vancouver back pain sufferers manage the fear of back pain via information, care, and movement.

The Sense of Fear

Fear itself makes sense. If you suffer pain with something, you strive to avoid that something like shuffling paper in a way that you get a paper cut or bending a certain way that cauess leg pain. If you suffer with back pain when you move, you attempt 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 point out though that if a back pain sufferer feels pain in the early days of back pain and doesn’t make a huge deal out of it, he or she does not get trapped in trying to avoid movement, in the fear avoidance cycle. (1) Vancouver Disc Centers understands with the Vancouver back pain patient who doesn’t desire to move too much because of fear that his or her back will hurt again or maybe even worse than before. Vancouver Disc Centers successfully gets Vancouver back pain sufferers moving and performing their normal activities of daily life one small 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 easing back pain and the fear that accompanies it. Incorporating manipulation to the treatment of low back pain earlier sped up the effectiveness of manipulation on back pain relief and decreased the use of medication to control the pain. (2) The Vancouver chiropractic treatment plan at Vancouver Disc Centers encompasses gentle, comforting Cox Technic to make larger the spinal canal and relieve pressure on the spinal nerves and 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 spur a back pain sufferer to seek non-surgical care as available at Vancouver Disc Centers. Listen in to this podcast of a patient who didn’t 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!