Largo Fall Prevention and Pain Relief with Chiropractic Care
Falls can happen at any age. Falls can cause great harm or not much harm at all. Falling once certainly can raise the intensity of fear of falling again. All these bits of information indicate that falls are a concern, a concern that is age blind. Hollstrom & Associates Inc always inquires our Largo chiropractic patients if they have fallen recently. Hollstrom & Associates Inc is in favor of interventions like exercise that may decrease the fear of falls, the impact of falls and the incidence of falls. Plus, Hollstrom & Associates Inc is quite good at relieving Largo back pain or neck pain that develops.
OLDER FOLKS AND FALLS
Older folks live at home by themselves and with others or in community-based housing. Each scenario 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 as well as the risk of falling. Such trials with community-dwelling older folks encompassed planned, structured, repetitive physical activity geared toward improving strength, gait, balance and mood in addition to decreasing falls. Some interventions tried are 3D,for example Tai Chi, Yoga, resistance training, and balance work. One meta-analysis of exercise trials described non-statistically significant benefits but benefits nonetheless: an 11% reduction 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 used a judo inspired exercise program which taught them how to fall and how to prevent falls revealed significant improvements in physical performance, fall-related self-efficacy and fall methods. (2) They found that such practices worked, particularly right after the intervention. (3) Hollstrom & Associates Inc would support our older Largo patients’ continued exercising to extend these fall-prevention and fall-fear-reducing benefits!
YOUNGER FOLKS AND FALLS
Younger people can benefit from Largo fall prevention strategies as falls may be detrimental to them, too. Falls and fall-related injuries endanger people at all ages. Falls at work and at home are a problem. A workplace trial of 10 weeks for working age adults with a judo-inspired exercise program was designed to improve physical function, activity, fall-related self-efficacy and safe-landing skills for a fall. Participants recovered physically and psychologically. They gathered techniques in how to fall safely as well as how to stop falls. (4) Hollstrom & Associates Inc supports exercise for all Largo chiropractic family members, young and old, to keep strong and healthy in the face of challenges like falls. Hollstrom & Associates Inc 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 due to a fall using The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.
Schedule your Largo chiropractic visit with Hollstrom & Associates Inc to take the fear out of falling, the pain out of a fall, and the risk of a fall and reduce it with some advice on strengthening exercise along with back pain-relieving chiropractic care.
