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Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre 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 stop your life! This holiday season, consider Santa. Think he’s experienced back pain before throwing all those boxes and bags? Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre imagines so! Santa can’t quit, and neither can you. Toronto chiropractic care can help you deal with new back pain and chronic back pain and direct our Toronto back pain sufferers to be a bit less fearful and a bit more confident getting around this holiday season.

FEAR OF BENDING

Your Toronto chiropractor knows this: many low back pain patients fear bending forward. Researchers looked into this common clinical finding and found that this fear of bending forward also influences postural sway or balance by disrupting hip balance control, causing weight shifting from side to side to keep balance. (1) What’s an undesirable effect of being unbalanced? A fall. Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre 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 REDUCE FEAR

“There’s an app for that!” Just what our older Toronto chiropractic patients with balance issues want to hear?! As much as “tech” can frustrate a few of its users, especially some older users, it can help! The new smartphone-based Gait&Balance App is available. Researchers have documented that it is able to assess age-related differences in balance not necessarily picked up 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 decrease fear of movement and improve balance.  This is quite hopeful, so much so that chiropractic researchers are exerting more research effort to quantify the benefits of multimodal chiropractic care in its ability to influence gait, balance and/or fall risk and prevention. (3) One positive 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) Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre 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 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 check for back pain risks!

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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 Toronto chiropractic appointment today. Calling all our Toronto 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 presents in one night! 

 Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre helps back pain sufferers control their fear of back pain recurrence and/or pain from moving with chiropractic care.
 
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