Rosenberg Wellness Center Manages Back Pain Fear with our Chiropractic Patients
Had back pain before? Yes? It’s common to fear its return, but do not let it stop your life! This holiday season, consider Santa. Think he’s felt back pain before moving all those packages and parcels? Rosenberg Wellness Center expects he has! Santa can’t quit, and neither can you. New York City chiropractic care can help you deal with new back pain and chronic back pain and direct our New York City back pain sufferers to be a bit less fearful and a bit more confident getting around this holiday season.
FEAR OF BENDING
Your New York City chiropractor realizes this: many low back pain patients fear bending forward. Researchers analyzed this common clinical finding and found that this fear of bending forward also affects postural sway or balance by interfering with hip balance control, causing weight shifting from side to side to maintain balance. (1) What’s an undesirable consequence of being unbalanced? A fall. Rosenberg Wellness Center finds it very important 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 New York City chiropractic patients with balance issues want to hear?! As much as “tech” can frustrate some 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 measure 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 assist healthcare providers like your chiropractor create a more effective 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 quantify 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 in addition to function and symptomatology were improved with a course of chiropractic care including Cox® Technic Flexion Distraction Decompression spinal manipulation. (4) Rosenberg Wellness Center offers this treatment along with nutrition and exercise to help our patients keep moving fearlessly 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 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 reliable 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 check for back pain risks!
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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 deal with his back pain for 20 years, incorporating the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.
Schedule your New York City chiropractic appointment today. Calling all our New York City 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 presents in one night!
