Carrolltown Fear of Back Pain Relieved with Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation
Fear of the “damaged spine.” It is a most common feeling to have about a lot of things in life. Fear avoidance. It is common in Carrolltown back pain sufferers. When back pain enters the scene, fear avoidant behavior also creeps in with it. Back pain specialists like your Carrolltown chiropractic physician recognize the influences of fear and fear avoidance on Carrolltown back pain and neck pain patients. Fear limits Carrolltown back pain sufferers from doing the simplest things because they worry that they may experience pain. The spine is rather sturdy, but when it is damaged its resiliency fades in the mind of its owner. Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation helps Carrolltown back pain sufferers cope with the fear of back pain through information, care, and movement.
The Sense of Fear
Fear itself makes sense. If you experience pain with something, you try to avoid that something like shuffling paper in a way that you get a paper cut or bending a certain way that provokes leg pain. If you feel back pain when you move, you seek not to move like that to avoid back pain. Avoiding back pain-provoking activity for a Carrolltown back pain sufferer wanting to protect his or her damaged back makes good sense. Researchers point out though that if a back pain sufferer feels pain in the early days of back pain and doesn’t make a huge deal out of it, he or she doesn’t get trapped in trying to avoid movement, in the fear avoidance cycle. (1) Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation empathizes with the Carrolltown back pain patient who does not want to move too much because of fear that his or her back will hurt again or maybe even worse than before. Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation successfully gets Carrolltown back pain sufferers moving and doing their normal activities of daily life one little motion at a time!
Gentle Care and Motion
Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation integrates motion into its in-office chiropractic care and its at-home recommendation care. Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation is all about motion and relieving back pain and the fear that accompanies it. Incorporating manipulation to the treatment of low back pain earlier enhanced the effectiveness of manipulation on back pain relief and decreased the use of medication to control the pain. (2) The Carrolltown chiropractic treatment plan at Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation includes gentle, soothing Cox Technic to make larger the spinal canal and reduce pressure on the spinal nerves and bring motion back to the spine as the back pain and/or leg pain improves.
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Fear may be a good thing, too. Fear of back surgery may spur a back pain sufferer to seek non-surgical care like that offered at Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation. Listen in to this podcast of a patient who didn’t want a second back surgery and got relief with Cox Technic. He even got back to exercising and moving which he stopped due to pain!
Schedule a Carrolltown chiropractic appointment at Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation to lessen your fear of your “damaged back” and help you start moving again!
