KINESIOPHOBIA. That’s big word. It denote fear that moving may cause pain. It is something your Southern New Hampshire chiropractor works with Southern New Hampshire back pain patients all the time. It’s important to move and not fear movement. Life is motion. Motion is life. Movement is critical, and New Hampshire Spine and Sport is all about getting our chiropractic patients moving and keeping them moving.
FEAR OF MOVING…AND MORE
Chronic back pain does not just affect 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 influences the back pain sufferer’s quality of life, disability and pain intensity. But just how much? Researchers say significantly. (1) New Hampshire Spine and Sport gets it. It is reasonable to not want to trigger such back pain if one can avoid it. New Hampshire Spine and Sport encourages slow and gradual return to everyday life motions and to take it one day at a time.
MOVEMENT IS PART OF THE Southern New Hampshire CHIROPRACTIC TREATMENT HEALING PLAN
New Hampshire Spine and Sport shares that research studies revealed improvement in walking capacity with non-surgical care for patients with lumbar spinal stenosis. This would certainly be well received by Southern New Hampshire back pain patients who have lumbar spine stenosis, the most common reason for 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 restore motion and function. Doctors like your Southern New Hampshire chiropractor at New Hampshire Spine and Sport test 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 have balance issues, too. Their trunk muscle activation during balance tasks is lower. (3) New Hampshire Spine and Sport can discover much about Southern New Hampshire back pain patient’s condition with some of the most unassuming tests…and individualize the treatment plan as necessary: Cox® Technic, nutrition and exercise.
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