OrthoIllinois Chiropractic Calms Patients Fear Of Returned Back Pain With Chiropractic Care
KINESIOPHOBIA. That’s big word. It denote fear that moving may cause pain. It’s something your McHenry chiropractor works with McHenry back pain patients all the time. It is vital to move and not fear movement. Life is motion. Motion is life. Movement is critical, and OrthoIllinois Chiropractic is all about getting our chiropractic patients moving and keeping them moving.
FEAR OF MOVING…AND MORE
Chronic back pain does not just alter the back and spine. It alters the back pain sufferer’s emotions and physicality, too. Kinesiophobia is a more extreme fear of pain or re-injury upon movement. No doubt such fear affects the back pain sufferer’s quality of life, disability and pain intensity. But by how much? Researchers say significantly. (1) OrthoIllinois Chiropractic gets it. It is reasonable to not desire to trigger such back pain if one can escape it. OrthoIllinois Chiropractic urges slow and gradual return to usual life motions and to do it one day at a time.
MOVEMENT IS PART OF THE McHenry CHIROPRACTIC TREATMENT HEALING PLAN
OrthoIllinois Chiropractic shares that research studies revealed improvement in walking capacity with non-surgical care for patients with lumbar spinal stenosis. This would certainly be welcomed by McHenry back pain patients suffering with lumbar spine stenosis, the most common cause of spine surgery in US adults. Manual therapy and individualized exercise programs offered better short-term symptom improvement, physical function and walking capacity than medical care or group exercise. (2)
BALANCE, MUSCLE AND BACK PAIN
Individualized treatment plans are best to reduce pain and return motion and function. Doctors like your McHenry chiropractor at OrthoIllinois Chiropractic assess muscle activation and balance ability with a one-legged balance posture in older patients and those with chronic low back pain because it’s established that chronic low back pain patients and older people respond with different muscle responses to various physical tasks than those who do not have chronic low back pain. Chronic low back pain sufferers experience balance issues, too. Their trunk muscle activation during balance tasks is worse. (3) OrthoIllinois Chiropractic can discover much about McHenry back pain patient’s condition with some of the simplest tests…and individualize the treatment plan as required: Cox® Technic, nutrition and exercise.
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