Toronto Fall Prevention and Pain Relief with Chiropractic Care
Falls can happen at any age. Falls can cause great harm or little harm at all. Falling once certainly can increase the intensity of fear of falling again. All these bits of information point out that falls are am issue, an issue that is age blind. Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre always asks our Toronto chiropractic patients if they’ve fallen recently. Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre supports interventions like exercise that may decrease the fear of falls, the impact of falls and the incidence of falls. Plus, Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre is quite good at relieving Toronto back pain or neck pain that results.
OLDER FOLKS AND FALLS
Older folks reside at home by themselves and with others or in community-based accommodations. Each scenario carries a risk of falling. Rugs, pets, misreading steps, or any number of things can result in a fall. For these older folks, the fear of falling is not uncommon. Researchers have put effort into research studies involving exercise interventions that reduce the fear of falling as well as the risk of falling. Such trials with community-dwelling older persons involved planned, structured, repetitive physical activity geared toward improving strength, gait, balance and mood in addition to decreasing falls. Some interventions tested are three dimensional like Tai Chi, Yoga, resistance training, and balance work. One meta-analysis of exercise trials described non-statistically significant benefits but benefits nonetheless: an 11% drop in people who fell, a 13% reduction in falls, a 19% decrease in injuries from falls. (1) Another study of aged 60-88 year olds that used 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) Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre would support our older Toronto patients’ continued exercising to prolong these fall-prevention and fall-fear-reducing benefits!
YOUNGER FOLKS AND FALLS
Younger people can benefit from Toronto fall prevention strategies as falls may be detrimental to them, too. Falls and fall-related injuries threaten people at all ages. Falls at work and at home are an issue. A workplace trial of 10 weeks for working age adults with a judo-inspired exercise program set out to improve physical function, activity, fall-related self-efficacy and safe-landing techniques for a fall. Participants recovered physically and psychologically. They practiced techniques in how to fall safely as well as how to prevent falls. (4) Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre supports exercise for all Toronto chiropractic family members, young and old, to keep strong and healthy in the face of challenges like falls. Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre helps alleviate 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 using The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.
Schedule your Toronto chiropractic visit with Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre to remove the fear of falling, the pain out of a fall, and the chance of a fall and reduce it with some guidance on strengthening exercise in addition to back pain-relieving chiropractic care.
