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Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation Manages Back Pain Fear with our Chiropractic Patients

Have you experienced back pain before? Yes? It’s common 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 moving all those boxes and bags? Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation expects he has! Santa can’t quit, and neither can you. Carrolltown chiropractic care can help manage new back pain and chronic back pain and lead our Carrolltown back pain sufferers to be a bit less fearful and a bit more confident getting around this holiday season.

FEAR OF BENDING

Your Carrolltown chiropractor realizes this: many low back pain patients fear bending forward. Researchers studied this common clinical finding and found that this fear of bending forward also affects postural sway or balance by disrupting hip balance control, causing weight shifting from side to side to maintain balance. (1) What’s an unwanted effect of being off-balance? A fall. Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation finds it very important to help our back pain patients – especially our older back pain patients – to keep their balance!

HELP TO KEEP BALANCE AND REDUCE FEAR

“There’s an app for that!” Just what our older Carrolltown chiropractic patients with balance issues want to hear?! As much as “tech” can annoy a few of its users, especially some older users, it can help! The novel smartphone-based Gait&Balance App is offered. Researchers have documented that it is able to assess age-related differences in balance not typically noted 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 beneficial and individualized treatment plan to decrease fear of movement and increase balance.  This is quite hopeful, so much so that chiropractic researchers are doing more research study to measure the benefits of multimodal chiropractic care in its ability to influence gait, balance and/or fall risk and prevention. (3) One encouraging 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) Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation offers this treatment along with nutrition and exercise to keep our chiropractic patients moving, fearless, and balanced!

BIOMARKERS FOR BACK PAIN

A new nutrition discovery 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 respected randomized control study found a link between vitamin D levels and changes in both pain and disability for low back pain patients treated with spinal manipulation. (5) One 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 manage his back pain for 20 years, incorporating the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.

Make your Carrolltown chiropractic appointment now. Calling all our Carrolltown 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! 

 Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation helps back pain sufferers contain their fear of back pain recurrence and/or pain from moving with chiropractic care.
 
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