Carrolltown Fall Prevention and Pain Relief with Chiropractic Care
Falls can occur at any age. Falls can trigger much harm or little harm at all. Falling once surely can increase the intensity of fear of falling again. All these bits of information indicate that falls are am issue, an issue that is age blind. Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation always inquires our Carrolltown chiropractic patients if they have fallen lately. Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation backs interventions like exercise that may reduce the fear of falls, the impact of falls and the incidence of falls. Plus, Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation is really good at relieving Carrolltown back pain or neck pain that develops.
OLDER FOLKS AND FALLS
Older folks reside at home alone and with others or in community-based accommodations. Each situation has 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 put effort into research studies looking at exercise interventions that reduce the fear of falling and the risk of falling. Such trials with community-dwelling older folks involved planned, structured, repetitive physical activity geared toward improving strength, gait, balance and mood in addition to decreasing falls. Some interventions tested are 3D like Tai Chi, Yoga, resistance training, and balance work. One meta-analysis of exercise trials presented non-statistically significant benefits but benefits even so: an 11% drop in people who fell, a 13% reduction in falls, a 19% drop in injuries from falls. (1) Another study of aged 60-88 year olds 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 methods. (2) They found that such practices worked, particularly immediately following the intervention. (3) Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation would support our older Carrolltown patients’ continued exercising to extend these fall-prevention and fall-fear-reducing advantages!
YOUNGER FOLKS AND FALLS
Younger people can appreciate Carrolltown fall prevention strategies as falls may be just as detrimental to them. Falls and fall-related injuries threaten people at all ages. Falls at work and at home are a problem. A workplace trial that lasted 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 skills for a fall. Participants improved physically and psychologically. They practiced techniques in how to fall safely and how to stop falls. (4) Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation supports exercise for all Carrolltown chiropractic family members, young and old, to keep strong and healthy in the face of challenges like falls. Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation 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 due to a fall using The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.
Schedule your Carrolltown chiropractic visit with Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation to remove the fear of falling, the pain out of a fall, and the risk of a fall and reduce it with some guidance on strengthening exercise in addition to back pain-relieving chiropractic care.
