Satterwhite Chiropractic Manages Back Pain Fear with our Chiropractic Patients

Had back pain before? Yes? It’s natural to fear its return, but don’t let it hijack your life! This time of year, just think of Santa. Think he’s felt back pain before throwing all those packages and parcels? Satterwhite Chiropractic imagines so! Santa cannot stop, and neither can you. Oxford chiropractic care can help you deal with new back pain and chronic back pain and guide our Oxford back pain sufferers to be a bit less fearful and a bit more confident getting around this holiday season.

FEAR OF BENDING

Your Oxford 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 influences postural sway or balance by disrupting hip balance control, bringing about weight shifting from side to side to keep balance. (1) What is an undesirable result of being unbalanced? A fall. Satterwhite Chiropractic finds it very important to help our back pain patients – especially our older back pain patients – stay balanced and upright!

HELP TO KEEP BALANCE AND REDUCE FEAR

“There’s an app for that!” Just what our older Oxford chiropractic patients with balance issues want to hear?! As much as “tech” can annoy a few of its users, particularly some older users, it can help! The new smartphone-based Gait&Balance App is offered. Researchers have documented that it is able to assess age-related differences in balance not typically 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 beneficial and individualized treatment plan to decrease fear of movement and improve balance.  This is quite hopeful, so much so that chiropractic researchers are exerting more research effort 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 in addition to function and symptomatology were better with a course of chiropractic care including Cox® Technic Flexion Distraction Decompression spinal manipulation. (4) Satterwhite Chiropractic uses this treatment along with nutrition and exercise to help our patients keep moving fearlessly and balanced!

BIOMARKERS FOR BACK PAIN

One new nutrition finding this month may also help 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 appears in many health news reports today also appears to be a potential biomarker for back pain relief and disability. A respected randomized control study found a relationship between vitamin D levels and changes in both pain and disability for low back pain patients treated with spinal manipulation. (5) Some 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 describes his helping a Vietnam veteran manage his back pain for 20 years, incorporating the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.

Make your Oxford chiropractic appointment now. Calling all our Oxford back pain patients! Bring us your back pain and your fear of back pain, bending and falling. We can help you manage them as well as Santa fearlessly and efficiently delivers all his presents in a single night! 

 Satterwhite Chiropractic helps back pain sufferers manage their fear of back pain recurrence and/or pain from moving with chiropractic care.
 
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