Toronto Chiropractic Care Relief for Back Pain and Fear of Back Pain
Have you noticed that if you see someone with a pin approach a balloon, you flinch or cover your ears? You know there’s a pop coming. It’s similar with Toronto back pain. If you expect your back to be painful, it often is. Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre cares for back pain patients every day with that balloon-pop instinct for back pain’s intensity. Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre works to help our Toronto back pain patients feel back pain relief and learn to not expect their backs to hurt.
Toronto BACK PAIN PERCEPTION
Researchers publish that perception of pain is affected by both the expectation of pain (or no pain) and the actual sensation of pain. However, the bigger the difference between the expectation and the pain, the less the expectation of pain or no pain affects the real experience of pain. (1) It is not surprising, then, that back pain patients - those with spondylosis, intervertebral disc disorders among others – have issues with depression. (2) They expect a life without back pain, yet they suffer with back pain. There is a disconnect between perception and reality. Caring for Toronto back pain patients consists of not just treating the basis of back pain but its influences on the whole person, mind and body.
Toronto BACK PAIN FEAR
Patients fear Toronto back pain. Patients want a diagnosis, pain control and imaging (often despite what the medical guidelines dictate). These perceived needs patient by patients with back pain influence patient outcomes. (3) Back pain specialists who understand these perceived needs can deal with these needs, can discuss these needs and can explain how these needs are being met with the Toronto chiropractic treatment plan. Your chiropractor wants what is best for you and your sought after and deserved pain relief.
Toronto BACK PAIN RELIEF WITH SPINAL MANIPULATION
Luckily, spinal manipulation proves itself worthy of use by Toronto back pain patients as research states that it may decrease the expectation of pain, the fear of movement and other related brain responses that chronic low back pain patients feel. (As an aside, how were these findings recorded? With amazing new MRI technology that examines brain function and blood oxygen level signaling! Amazing!). (4) Your Toronto chiropractor at Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre offers the gentlest form of spinal manipulation, Cox Technic, that itself is amazing. Another research study reported that manipulation and mobilization likely decrease pain and increase function for chronic low back pain. Manipulation has a better effect than mobilization. Both seemed to be safe interventions guiding the researchers to propose that a multimodal treatment plan may be encouraging. (5) Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre understands this to be true! Your treatment plan will consist of a variety of treatment tactics to help get you the relief you want.
Listen to this PODCAST with Australian chiropractor, Dr. Camercon McConville, on The Back Doctor’s Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson. Dr. McConville shares how he combines a variety of treatment approaches to help his patients return to the activities they want to do without always feeling the fear of pain.
CONTACT Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre
Schedule your Toronto chiropractic appointment at Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre. Together, you and Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre will help form positive perceptions of back pain relief potential with chiropractic care.
