West Des Moines Fall Prevention and Pain Relief with Chiropractic Care
Falls can occur at any age. Falls can cause great harm or not much harm at all. Falling once surely can raise the level of fear of falling again. All these bits of information indicate that falls are am issue, an issue that is age blind. Executive Chiropractic of Iowa always asks our West Des Moines chiropractic patients if they have fallen recently. Executive Chiropractic of Iowa is in favor of interventions like exercise that may reduce the fear of falls, the impact of falls and the incidence of falls. Plus, Executive Chiropractic of Iowa is quite good at relieving West Des Moines back pain or neck pain that results.
OLDER FOLKS AND FALLS
Older folks live at home by themselves and with others or in community-based housing. Each situation carries a risk of falling. Rugs, pets, misreading steps, or any number of things can end in a fall. For these older folks, the fear of falling is common. Researchers have done research studies involving exercise interventions that reduce the fear of falling and the risk of falling. Such trials with community-dwelling older folks involved planned, structured, repetitive physical activity geared toward improving strength, gait, balance and mood as well as decreasing falls. Some interventions tried are three dimensional,for example Tai Chi, Yoga, resistance training, and balance work. One meta-analysis of exercise trials described non-statistically significant benefits but benefits even so: an 11% drop in people who fell, a 13% decrease in falls, a 19% drop in injuries from falls. (1) Another study of people between 60 and 88 years old that implemented a judo inspired exercise program which taught them how to fall and how to prevent falls showed significant improvements in physical performance, fall-related self-efficacy and fall techniques. (2) They found that such practices worked, particularly right after the intervention. (3) Executive Chiropractic of Iowa would support our older West Des Moines patients’ continued exercising to prolong these fall-prevention and fall-fear-reducing benefits!
YOUNGER FOLKS AND FALLS
Younger folks can benefit from West Des Moines fall prevention strategies as falls can be detrimental to them, too. Falls and fall-related injuries put at risk people at all ages. Falls at work and at home are a problem. A workplace trial that lasted 10 weeks for working age adults with a judo-inspired exercise program worked on improving physical function, activity, fall-related self-efficacy and safe-landing skills for a fall. Participants recovered physically and psychologically. They practiced techniques in how to fall safely and how to stop falls. (4) Executive Chiropractic of Iowa supports exercise for all West Des Moines chiropractic family members, young and old, to keep strong and healthy in the face of challenges like falls. Executive Chiropractic of Iowa helps relieve 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 after a fall implementing The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.
Schedule your West Des Moines chiropractic visit with Executive Chiropractic of Iowa to take the fear out of falling, the pain out of a fall, and the chance of a fall and decrease it with some guidance on strengthening exercise along with back pain-relieving chiropractic care.
