Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre Manages Back Pain Fear with our Chiropractic Patients
Had back pain before? Yes? It’s natural to fear its recurrence, but don’t let it slow you down! This time of year, just think of Santa. Think he’s experienced back pain before throwing all those packages and parcels? Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre expects he has! Santa cannot stop, and neither can you. Toronto chiropractic care can help manage new back pain and chronic back pain and lead our Toronto back pain sufferers to live a bit more fear-lessly and confidently this holiday season.
FEAR OF BENDING
Your Toronto chiropractor realizes 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 maintain balance. (1) What’s an undesirable effect of being off-balance? A fall. Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre finds it very critical to help our back pain patients – especially our older back pain patients – to keep their balance!
HELP TO KEEP BALANCE AND DECREASE FEAR
“There’s an app for that!” Just what our older Toronto chiropractic patients with balance issues want to hear?! As much as “tech” can frustrate some of its users, particularly some older users, it can help! The new smartphone-based Gait&Balance App is offered. Researchers have verified that it is able to assess age-related differences in balance not necessarily picked up via clinical exam measurements like postural stability, step time, step length and cycle. (2) These insights can help healthcare providers like your chiropractor design 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 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 improved with a course of chiropractic care including Cox® Technic Flexion Distraction Decompression spinal manipulation. (4) Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre offers this treatment along with nutrition and exercise to keep our chiropractic patients moving, fearless, and balanced!
BIOMARKERS FOR BACK PAIN
One new nutrition discovery this month may also help this effort. It comes from researchers analyzing 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 appears in many health news reports today also appears 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 cared for 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.
Make your Toronto chiropractic appointment soon. Calling all our Toronto 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 a single night!
