Executive Chiropractic of Iowa Manages Back Pain Fear with our Chiropractic Patients
Have you experienced back pain before? Yes? It’s natural to fear its return, but don’t let it slow you down! This holiday season, consider Santa. Think he’s experienced back pain before throwing all those packages and parcels? Executive Chiropractic of Iowa expects he has! Santa can’t quit, and neither can you. West Des Moines chiropractic care can help you deal with new back pain and chronic back pain and lead our West Des Moines back pain sufferers to live a bit more fear-lessly and confidently this holiday season.
FEAR OF BENDING
Your West Des Moines chiropractor knows this: many low back pain patients fear bending forward. Researchers studied this common clinical finding and found that this fear of bending forward also affects postural sway or balance by disrupting hip balance control, causing weight shifting from side to side to maintain balance. (1) What’s an undesirable consequence of being off-balance? A fall. Executive Chiropractic of Iowa finds it very important to help our back pain patients – especially our older back pain patients – to keep their balance!
HELP TO KEEP BALANCE AND REDUCE FEAR
“There’s an app for that!” Just what our older West Des Moines chiropractic patients with balance issues want to hear?! As much as “tech” can annoy a few of its users, particularly some older users, it can help! The novel smartphone-based Gait&Balance App is available. Researchers have documented that it is able to measure age-related differences in balance not necessarily noted during clinical exam measurements like postural stability, step time, step length and cycle. (2) These insights can assist healthcare providers like your chiropractor design a more beneficial and individualized treatment plan to decrease fear of movement and increase balance. This is quite hopeful, so much so that chiropractic researchers are exerting more research effort 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 better with a course of chiropractic care including Cox® Technic Flexion Distraction Decompression spinal manipulation. (4) Executive Chiropractic of Iowa 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 help this effort. It comes from researchers analyzing levels of biomarkers – C-reactive protein, vitamin D, neuropeptide Y and others - in low back pain patients tested using blood tests with pain and disability. Vitamin D which keeps appearing in many health news reports today also appears to be a potential biomarker for back pain relief and disability. A reliable randomized control study found a link between vitamin D levels and changes in both pain and disability for low back pain patients cared for with spinal manipulation. (5) One 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 describes his helping a Vietnam veteran deal with his back pain for 20 years, incorporating the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.
Schedule your West Des Moines chiropractic appointment today. Calling all our West Des Moines back pain patients! Bring us your back pain and your fear of back pain, bending and falling. We can help you handle them as well as Santa fearlessly and efficiently delivers all his presents in a single night!
