New York City Fall Prevention and Pain Relief with Chiropractic Care
Falls can happen at any age. Falls can cause much harm or not much harm at all. Falling once surely can raise the intensity of fear of falling again. All these bits of information highlight the fact that falls are a concern, a concern that is age blind. Rosenberg Wellness Center always inquires our New York City chiropractic patients if they have fallen recently. Rosenberg Wellness Center is in favor of interventions like exercise that may reduce the fear of falls, the impact of falls and the incidence of falls. Plus, Rosenberg Wellness Center is really good at relieving New York City back pain or neck pain that ensues.
OLDER FOLKS AND FALLS
Older folks reside at home alone and with others or in community-based housing. Each situation carries a risk of falling. Rugs, pets, misreading steps, or any number of things can end in a fall. For these older friends and neighbors and relatives, the fear of falling is common. Researchers have organized research studies involving exercise interventions that reduce the fear of falling as well as the risk of falling. Such trials with community-dwelling older folks incorporated planned, structured, repetitive physical activity geared toward enhancing strength, gait, balance and mood in addition to decreasing falls. Some interventions tried are three dimensional like Tai Chi, Yoga, resistance training, and balance work. A meta-analysis of exercise trials described non-statistically significant benefits but benefits even so: an 11% decrease in people who fell, a 13% reduction in falls, a 19% drop in injuries from falls. (1) Another study of people between 60 and 88 years old that implemented a judo inspired exercise program which taught them how to fall and how to prevent falls showed significant improvements in physical performance, fall-related self-efficacy and fall techniques. (2) They reported that such practices worked, particularly immediately following the intervention. (3) Rosenberg Wellness Center would encourage our older New York City patients to keep exercising to extend these fall-prevention and fall-fear-reducing benefits!
YOUNGER FOLKS AND FALLS
Younger folks can benefit from New York City fall prevention strategies as falls may be just as detrimental to them. Falls and fall-related injuries put at risk people at all ages. Falls at work and at home are a problem. A workplace trial of 10 weeks for working age adults with a judo-inspired exercise program worked on improving physical function, activity, fall-related self-efficacy and safe-landing techniques for a fall. Participants got better physically and psychologically. They gathered techniques in how to fall safely as well as how to avert falls. (4) Rosenberg Wellness Center supports exercise for all New York City chiropractic family members, young and old, to keep strong and healthy in the face of challenges like falls. Rosenberg Wellness Center helps relieve fall-related back pain and neck pain, too.
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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Lee Hazen on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he describes helping a patient recover from pain after a fall following The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.
Schedule your New York City chiropractic visit with Rosenberg Wellness Center to remove the fear of falling, the pain out of a fall, and the risk of a fall and reduce it with some advice on strengthening exercise as well as back pain-relieving chiropractic care.
