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Cox Chiropractic Medicine Inc Manages Back Pain Fear with our Chiropractic Patients

Had back pain before? Yes? It is natural to fear its recurrence, but don’t let it stop your life! This time of year, just think of Santa. Think he’s felt back pain before throwing all those boxes and bags? Cox Chiropractic Medicine Inc imagines so! Santa can’t stop, and neither can you. Fort Wayne chiropractic care can help you deal with new back pain and chronic back pain and guide our Fort Wayne back pain sufferers to live a bit more fear-lessly and confidently this holiday season.

FEAR OF BENDING

Your Fort Wayne chiropractor knows this: many low back pain patients fear bending forward. Researchers analyzed 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 maintain balance. (1) What’s an unwanted consequence of being unbalanced? A fall. Cox Chiropractic Medicine Inc finds it very critical 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 Fort Wayne 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 verified that it is able to measure 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 assist healthcare providers like your chiropractor create 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 doing more research study 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 better with a course of chiropractic care including Cox® Technic Flexion Distraction Decompression spinal manipulation. (4) Cox Chiropractic Medicine Inc uses this treatment along with nutrition and exercise to help our patients keep moving fearlessly and balanced!

BIOMARKERS FOR BACK PAIN

A new nutrition discovery this month may also help 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 via 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 relationship between vitamin D levels and changes in both pain and disability for low back pain patients cared for with spinal manipulation. (5) One 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 illustrates his helping a Vietnam veteran deal with his back pain for 20 years, incorporating the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.

Make your Fort Wayne chiropractic appointment today. Calling all our Fort Wayne 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! 

 Cox Chiropractic Medicine Inc helps back pain sufferers contain their fear of back pain recurrence and/or pain from moving with chiropractic care.
 
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