Poulin Chiropractic of Herndon and Ashburn 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 stop your life! This holiday season, consider Santa. Think he’s felt back pain before lugging all those boxes and bags? Poulin Chiropractic of Herndon and Ashburn expects he has! Santa can’t quit, and neither can you. Ashburn and Herndon chiropractic care can help manage new back pain and chronic back pain and direct our Ashburn and Herndon back pain sufferers to live a bit more fear-lessly and confidently this holiday season.
FEAR OF BENDING
Your Ashburn and Herndon chiropractor realizes 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 is an undesirable consequence of being unbalanced? A fall. Poulin Chiropractic of Herndon and Ashburn finds it very critical to help our back pain patients – especially our older back pain patients – to keep their balance!
HELP TO KEEP BALANCE AND DECREASE FEAR
“There’s an app for that!” Just what our older Ashburn and Herndon chiropractic patients with balance issues want to hear?! As much as “tech” can annoy some of its users, especially some older users, it can help! The novel smartphone-based Gait&Balance App is offered. Researchers have documented that it is able to track age-related differences in balance not necessarily picked up during clinical exam measurements like postural stability, step time, step length and cycle. (2) These insights can help healthcare providers like your chiropractor create a more beneficial and individualized treatment plan to reduce 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 affect 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 better with a course of chiropractic care including Cox® Technic Flexion Distraction Decompression spinal manipulation. (4) Poulin Chiropractic of Herndon and Ashburn uses this treatment along with nutrition and exercise to help our patients keep moving fearlessly and balanced!
BIOMARKERS FOR BACK PAIN
A new nutrition finding this month may also help this effort. It comes from researchers analyzing 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 deal with his back pain for 20 years, incorporating the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.
Schedule your Ashburn and Herndon chiropractic appointment now. Calling all our Ashburn and Herndon 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 presents in a single night!
