Hollstrom & Associates Inc Manages Back Pain Fear with our Chiropractic Patients
Had back pain before? Yes? It’s natural to fear its return, but don’t let it hijack your life! This time of year, just think of Santa. Think he’s had back pain before lugging all those packages and parcels? Hollstrom & Associates Inc expects he has! Santa cannot quit, and neither can you. Largo chiropractic care can help you deal with new back pain and chronic back pain and direct our Largo back pain sufferers to live a bit more fear-lessly and confidently this holiday season.
FEAR OF BENDING
Your Largo 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 result of being unbalanced? A fall. Hollstrom & Associates Inc 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 Largo chiropractic patients with balance issues want to hear?! As much as “tech” can annoy some of its users, particularly some older users, it can help! The novel smartphone-based Gait&Balance App is accessible. Researchers have documented that it is able to track age-related differences in balance not necessarily picked up via 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 effective and individualized treatment plan to decrease fear of movement and enhanced balance. This is quite hopeful, so much so that chiropractic researchers are exerting more research effort 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 improved with a course of chiropractic care including Cox® Technic Flexion Distraction Decompression spinal manipulation. (4) Hollstrom & Associates Inc offers this treatment along with nutrition and exercise to keep our chiropractic patients moving, fearless, and balanced!
BIOMARKERS FOR BACK PAIN
One new nutrition discovery 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 seems to be a potential biomarker for back pain relief and disability. A respected randomized control study found a relationship between vitamin D levels and changes in both pain and disability for low back pain patients treated with spinal manipulation. (5) Some day, we may do blood tests to manage risks for back pain!
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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Joel Dixon on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he illustrates his helping a Vietnam veteran manage his back pain for 20 years, incorporating the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.
Schedule your Largo chiropractic appointment today. Calling all our Largo back pain patients! Bring us your back pain and your fear of back pain, bending and falling. We can help you manage them as well as Santa fearlessly and efficiently delivers all his packages in one night!
