Dr. Hoang's Chiropractic Clinic Manages Back Pain Fear with our Chiropractic Patients
Had back pain before? Yes? It is natural to fear its return, but do not let it hijack your life! This time of year, just think of Santa. Think he’s felt back pain before lugging all those boxes and bags? Dr. Hoang's Chiropractic Clinic expects he has! Santa can’t quit, and neither can you. Montreal chiropractic care can help you deal with new back pain and chronic back pain and guide our Montreal back pain sufferers to be a bit less fearful and a bit more confident getting around this holiday season.
FEAR OF BENDING
Your Montreal 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 influences postural sway or balance by interfering with hip balance control, causing weight shifting from side to side to maintain balance. (1) What is an undesirable result of being off-balance? A fall. Dr. Hoang's Chiropractic Clinic finds it very critical to help our back pain patients – especially our older back pain patients – stay balanced and upright!
HELP TO KEEP BALANCE AND REDUCE FEAR
“There is an app for that!” Just what our older Montreal chiropractic patients with balance issues want to hear?! As much as “tech” can frustrate a few of its users, particularly some older users, it can help! The novel smartphone-based Gait&Balance App is accessible. Researchers have verified that it is able to assess age-related differences in balance not necessarily noted 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 beneficial and individualized treatment plan to reduce fear of movement and improve 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 positive 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) Dr. Hoang's Chiropractic Clinic offers 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 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) One 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 manage his back pain for 20 years, incorporating the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.
Make your Montreal chiropractic appointment today. Calling all our Montreal 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!
