Executive Chiropractic of Iowa Manages Back Pain Fear with our Chiropractic Patients

Had back pain before? Yes? It’s common to fear its return, but do not let it hijack your life! This holiday season, consider Santa. Think he’s experienced back pain before throwing all those boxes and bags? Executive Chiropractic of Iowa imagines so! Santa cannot quit, and neither can you. West Des Moines chiropractic care can help manage new back pain and chronic back pain and direct 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 realizes 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 affects postural sway or balance by disrupting hip balance control, bringing about weight shifting from side to side to keep balance. (1) What’s an unwanted consequence of being off-balance? A fall. Executive Chiropractic of Iowa finds it very critical to help our back pain patients – especially our older back pain patients – to keep their balance!

HELP TO KEEP BALANCE AND DECREASE 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, especially some older users, it can help! The novel smartphone-based Gait&Balance App is accessible. Researchers have verified that it is able to assess 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 help healthcare providers like your chiropractor design a more effective and individualized treatment plan to decrease fear of movement and enhanced balance.  This is quite hopeful, so much so that chiropractic researchers are doing more research study to measure the benefits of multimodal chiropractic care in its ability to influence gait, balance and/or fall risk and prevention. (3) One encouraging study with older lumbar spinal stenosis patients (average age 83.5 years) found that their postural sway and entropy in addition to function and symptomatology were better with a course of chiropractic care including Cox® Technic Flexion Distraction Decompression spinal manipulation. (4) Executive Chiropractic of Iowa uses this treatment along with nutrition and exercise to help our patients keep moving fearlessly and balanced!

BIOMARKERS FOR BACK PAIN

One new nutrition finding this month may also help 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 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 respected 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 manage risks for back pain!

CONTACT Executive Chiropractic of Iowa

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 manage his back pain for 20 years, incorporating the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.

Schedule your West Des Moines chiropractic appointment now. 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! 

 Executive Chiropractic of Iowa helps back pain sufferers control their fear of back pain recurrence and/or pain from moving with chiropractic care.
 
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