Ashburn and Herndon Fear of Back Pain Relieved with Poulin Chiropractic of Herndon and Ashburn
Fear of the “damaged spine.” It is a most common feeling to have about any number of things in life. Fear avoidance. It’s common in Ashburn and Herndon back pain sufferers. When back pain becomes part of life, fear avoidant behavior tends to creep in with it. Back pain specialists like your Ashburn and Herndon chiropractic physician recognize the effects of fear and fear avoidance on Ashburn and Herndon back pain and neck pain patients. Fear keeps Ashburn and Herndon back pain sufferers from doing the simplest things out of concern that they may hurt. The spine is rather resilient, but when it’s damaged its sturdiness disappears in the mind of its owner. Poulin Chiropractic of Herndon and Ashburn helps Ashburn and Herndon back pain sufferers contain the fear of back pain via information, care, and movement.
The Sense of Fear
Fear itself makes sense. If you experience pain with something, you attempt to avoid that something like shuffling paper in a way that you get a paper cut or bending a certain way that elicits leg pain. If you suffer with back pain when you move, you seek not to move like that to avoid back pain. Avoiding back pain-producing activity for a Ashburn and Herndon back pain sufferer wanting to protect his or her damaged back makes good sense. Researchers explain though that if a back pain sufferer feels pain in the early days of back pain and does not make a huge deal out of it, he or she doesn’t get trapped in trying to avoid movement, in the fear avoidance cycle. (1) Poulin Chiropractic of Herndon and Ashburn understands with the Ashburn and Herndon back pain patient who does not desire to move too much because of fear that his or her back will hurt again or maybe even worse than before. Poulin Chiropractic of Herndon and Ashburn positively gets Ashburn and Herndon back pain sufferers moving and performing their normal activities of daily life one tiny motion at a time!
Gentle Care and Motion
Poulin Chiropractic of Herndon and Ashburn integrates motion into its in-office chiropractic care and its at-home recommendation care. Poulin Chiropractic of Herndon and Ashburn is all about motion and relieving back pain and the fear that accompanies it. Adding manipulation to the treatment of low back pain earlier increased the effectiveness of manipulation on back pain relief and lowered the use of medication to control the pain. (2) The Ashburn and Herndon chiropractic treatment plan at Poulin Chiropractic of Herndon and Ashburn involves gentle, soothing Cox Technic to make larger the spinal canal and lessen pressure on the spinal nerves as well as bring motion back to the spine as the back pain and/or leg pain lessens.
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Fear may be a good thing, too. Fear of back surgery may get a back pain sufferer to seek non-surgical care like that offered at Poulin Chiropractic of Herndon and Ashburn. Listen in to this podcast of a patient who didn’t want a second back surgery and found relief with Cox Technic. He even got back to exercising and moving which he quit due to pain!
Schedule a Ashburn and Herndon chiropractic appointment at Poulin Chiropractic of Herndon and Ashburn to lessen your fear of your “damaged back” and get you moving!
