West Des Moines Fear of Back Pain Relieved with Executive Chiropractic of Iowa
Fear of the “damaged spine.” It is a most common feeling to have about a lot of things in life. Fear avoidance. It’s common for West Des Moines back pain sufferers. When back pain becomes part of life, fear avoidant behavior also creeps in with it. Back pain specialists like your West Des Moines chiropractic physician are aware of the influences of fear and fear avoidance on West Des Moines back pain and neck pain patients. Fear prevents West Des Moines back pain sufferers from doing the simplest things out of concern that they may experience pain. The spine is rather resilient, but when it’s damaged its resiliency fades in the mind of its owner. Executive Chiropractic of Iowa helps West Des Moines back pain sufferers contain 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 provokes leg pain. If you experience back pain when you move, you seek not to move like that to avoid back pain. Avoiding back pain-producing activity for a West Des Moines 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 doesn’t get caught in trying to avoid movement, in the fear avoidance cycle. (1) Executive Chiropractic of Iowa empathizes with the West Des Moines 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 that last time. Executive Chiropractic of Iowa successfully gets West Des Moines back pain sufferers moving and doing their normal activities of daily life one little motion at a time!
Gentle Care and Motion
Executive Chiropractic of Iowa joins motion into its in-office chiropractic care and its at-home recommendation care. Executive Chiropractic of Iowa is all about motion and relieving back pain and the fear that accompanies it. Adding manipulation to the treatment of low back pain earlier enhanced the effectiveness of manipulation on back pain relief and decreased the use of medication to manage the pain. (2) The West Des Moines chiropractic treatment plan at Executive Chiropractic of Iowa involves gentle, soothing Cox Technic to make larger the spinal canal and reduce pressure on the spinal nerves as well as bring motion back to the spine as the back pain and/or leg pain eases.
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Fear may be a good thing, too. Fear of back surgery may lead a back pain sufferer to seek non-surgical care as available at Executive Chiropractic of Iowa. Listen in to this podcast of a patient who didn’t want a second back surgery and found relief with Cox Technic. He even returned to exercising and moving which he quit due to pain!
Schedule a West Des Moines chiropractic appointment at Executive Chiropractic of Iowa to ease your fear of your “damaged back” and help you start moving again!
