Pflugerville Wellness Center Manages Back Pain Fear with our Chiropractic Patients

Had back pain before? Yes? It’s common to fear its recurrence, but do not let it slow you down! This holiday season, consider Santa. Think he’s experienced back pain before throwing all those packages and parcels? Pflugerville Wellness Center expects he has! Santa cannot quit, and neither can you. Pflugerville chiropractic care can help you deal with new back pain and chronic back pain and guide our Pflugerville back pain sufferers to be a bit less fearful and a bit more confident getting around this holiday season.

FEAR OF BENDING

Your Pflugerville 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 interfering with hip balance control, bringing about weight shifting from side to side to maintain balance. (1) What is an unwanted consequence of being off-balance? A fall. Pflugerville Wellness Center finds it very critical to help our back pain patients – especially our older back pain patients – to keep their balance!

HELP TO KEEP BALANCE AND DECREASE FEAR

“There’s an app for that!” Just what our older Pflugerville chiropractic patients with balance issues want to hear?! As much as “tech” can annoy some of its users, especially some older users, it can help! The novel smartphone-based Gait&Balance App is offered. Researchers have verified that it is able to measure age-related differences in balance not necessarily noted during 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 effective and individualized treatment plan to reduce fear of movement and enhanced 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 affect 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) Pflugerville Wellness Center offers this treatment along with nutrition and exercise to keep our chiropractic patients moving, fearless, and balanced!

BIOMARKERS FOR BACK PAIN

A new nutrition finding this month may also aid this effort. It comes from researchers analyzing 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 reliable randomized control study found a link between vitamin D levels and changes in both pain and disability for low back pain patients cared for with spinal manipulation. (5) Some day, we may do blood tests to manage risks for back pain!

CONTACT Pflugerville Wellness Center

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 deal with his back pain for 20 years, incorporating the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.

Schedule your Pflugerville chiropractic appointment soon. Calling all our Pflugerville 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 one night! 

 Pflugerville Wellness Center helps back pain sufferers contain their fear of back pain recurrence and/or pain from moving with chiropractic care.
 
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