McHenry Fear of Back Pain Relieved with OrthoIllinois Chiropractic
Fear of the “damaged spine.” It’s a most common feeling to have about any number of things in life. Fear avoidance. It’s common for McHenry back pain sufferers. When back pain enters the scene, fear avoidant behavior tends to creep in with it. Back pain specialists like your McHenry chiropractic physician are aware of the influences of fear and fear avoidance on McHenry back pain and neck pain patients. Fear prevents McHenry back pain sufferers from doing the simplest things because they worry that they may make the pain worse. The spine is rather sturdy, but when it is damaged its resiliency disappears in the mind of its owner. OrthoIllinois Chiropractic assists McHenry back pain sufferers contain the fear of back pain through information, care, and movement.
The Sense of Fear
Fear itself makes sense. If you suffer pain with something, you strive to avoid that something like shuffling paper in a way that you get a paper cut or bending a certain way that cauess leg pain. If you have back pain when you move, you attempt not to move like that to avoid back pain. Avoiding back pain-provoking activity for a McHenry back pain sufferer wanting to protect his or her damaged back makes good sense. Researchers point out though that if a back pain sufferer experiences pain in the early days of back pain and does not make a big deal out of it, he or she doesn’t get caught in trying to avoid movement, in the fear avoidance cycle. (1) OrthoIllinois Chiropractic empathizes with the McHenry back pain patient who doesn’t desire to move too much due to fear that his or her back will hurt again or maybe even worse than before. OrthoIllinois Chiropractic positively gets McHenry back pain sufferers moving and performing their normal activities of daily life one tiny motion at a time!
Gentle Care and Motion
OrthoIllinois Chiropractic joins motion into its in-office chiropractic care and its at-home recommendation care. OrthoIllinois Chiropractic is all about motion and easing back pain and the fear that accompanies it. Adding manipulation to the treatment of low back pain earlier increased the effectiveness of manipulation on back pain relief and decreased the use of medication to control the pain. (2) The McHenry chiropractic treatment plan at OrthoIllinois Chiropractic encompasses gentle, comforting Cox Technic to make larger the spinal canal and lessen pressure on the spinal nerves and bring motion back to the spine as the back pain and/or leg pain improves.
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Fear may be a good thing, too. Fear of back surgery may lead a back pain sufferer to pursue non-surgical care like that offered at OrthoIllinois Chiropractic. Listen in to this podcast of a patient who didn’t want a second back surgery and got relief with Cox Technic. He even got back to exercising and moving which he quit due to pain!
Schedule a McHenry chiropractic appointment at OrthoIllinois Chiropractic to ease your fear of your “damaged back” and get you moving!
