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Dr. Hoang's Chiropractic Clinic Manages Back Pain Fear with our Chiropractic Patients

Have you experienced back pain before? Yes? It’s natural to fear its return, but do not let it hijack your life! This time of year, just think of Santa. Think he’s had back pain before delivering all those boxes and bags? Dr. Hoang's Chiropractic Clinic expects he has! Santa cannot stop, and neither can you. Montreal chiropractic care can help you deal with new back pain and chronic back pain and lead 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 looked into this common clinical finding and found that this fear of bending forward also influences postural sway or balance by disrupting hip balance control, causing weight shifting from side to side to keep balance. (1) What’s an undesirable consequence of being unbalanced? 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’s 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, especially some older users, it can help! The new smartphone-based Gait&Balance App is offered. Researchers have verified that it is able to track age-related differences in balance not necessarily noted during 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 increase 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 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 with blood tests with pain and disability. Vitamin D which appears 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 correlation 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 Montreal chiropractic appointment now. 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 handle them as well as Santa fearlessly and efficiently delivers all his packages in one night! 

 Dr. Hoang's Chiropractic Clinic helps back pain sufferers manage their fear of back pain recurrence and/or pain from moving with chiropractic care.
 
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