McHenry Fall Prevention and Pain Relief with Chiropractic Care
Falls can happen at any age. Falls can cause great harm or little harm at all. Falling once certainly can raise the intensity of fear of falling again. All these bits of information underscore that falls are am issue, an issue that is age blind. OrthoIllinois Chiropractic always inquires our McHenry chiropractic patients if they have fallen lately. OrthoIllinois Chiropractic backs interventions like exercise that may decrease the fear of falls, the impact of falls and the incidence of falls. Plus, OrthoIllinois Chiropractic is really good at relieving McHenry back pain or neck pain that develops.
OLDER FOLKS AND FALLS
Older folks live at home by themselves and with others or in community-based housing. Each scenario carries a risk of falling. Rugs, pets, misreading steps, or any number of things can end in a fall. For these older friends and neighbors and relatives, the fear of falling is usual. Researchers have done research studies looking at exercise interventions that decrease the fear of falling as well as the risk of falling. Such trials with community-dwelling older folks involved planned, structured, repetitive physical activity geared toward enhancing strength, gait, balance and mood as well as decreasing falls. Some interventions tested are three dimensional,for example Tai Chi, Yoga, resistance training, and balance work. A meta-analysis of exercise trials reported on non-statistically significant benefits but benefits even so: an 11% decrease in people who fell, a 13% reduction in falls, a 19% decrease in injuries from falls. (1) Another study of people between 60 and 88 years old that used a judo inspired exercise program which taught them how to fall and how to prevent falls revealed significant improvements in physical performance, fall-related self-efficacy and fall methods. (2) They reported that such practices worked, particularly immediately following the intervention. (3) OrthoIllinois Chiropractic would encourage our older McHenry patients to keep exercising to prolong these fall-prevention and fall-fear-reducing benefits!
YOUNGER FOLKS AND FALLS
Younger people can appreciate McHenry fall prevention strategies as falls may be detrimental to them, too. Falls and fall-related injuries jeopardize people at all ages. Falls at work and at home are an issue. A workplace trial of 10 weeks for working age adults with a judo-inspired exercise program worked on improving physical function, activity, fall-related self-efficacy and safe-landing methods for a fall. Participants improved physically and psychologically. They gained techniques in how to fall safely as well as how to stop falls. (4) OrthoIllinois Chiropractic supports exercise for all McHenry chiropractic family members, young and old, to keep strong and healthy in the face of challenges like falls. OrthoIllinois Chiropractic helps ease fall-related back pain and neck pain, too.
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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Lee Hazen on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he describes helping a patient recover from pain due to a fall following The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.
Schedule your McHenry chiropractic visit with OrthoIllinois Chiropractic to take the fear out of falling, the pain out of a fall, and the risk of a fall and decrease it with some guidance on strengthening exercise along with back pain-relieving chiropractic care.
