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Hollstrom & Associates Inc Manages Back Pain Fear with our Chiropractic Patients

Have you experienced back pain before? Yes? It’s common to fear its recurrence, but do not let it hijack your life! This time of year, just think of Santa. Think he’s had back pain before throwing all those boxes and bags? Hollstrom & Associates Inc expects he has! Santa cannot stop, and neither can you. Largo chiropractic care can help you deal with new back pain and chronic back pain and guide our Largo back pain sufferers to be a bit less fearful and a bit more confident getting around this holiday season.

FEAR OF BENDING

Your Largo chiropractor knows 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 interfering with hip balance control, bringing about weight shifting from side to side to keep balance. (1) What is an undesirable consequence of being off-balance? A fall. Hollstrom & Associates Inc finds it very important to help our back pain patients – especially our older back pain patients – stay balanced and upright!

HELP TO KEEP BALANCE AND DECREASE 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 new smartphone-based Gait&Balance App is available. Researchers have documented that it is able to track age-related differences in balance not typically 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 improve 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 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 as well as 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 finding this month may also aid 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 via 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 correlation between vitamin D levels and changes in both pain and disability for low back pain patients cared for 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 describes his helping a Vietnam veteran deal with his back pain for 20 years, incorporating the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.

Make your Largo chiropractic appointment soon. 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! 

 Hollstrom & Associates Inc helps back pain sufferers control their fear of back pain recurrence and/or pain from moving with chiropractic care.
 
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