Dr. Butwell Calms Patients Fear Of Returned Back Pain With Chiropractic Care
KINESIOPHOBIA. That’s big word. It means fear that moving may cause pain. It’s something your Georgetown chiropractor works with Georgetown back pain patients every day. It’s important to move and not fear movement. Life is motion. Motion is life. Movement is critical, and Dr. Butwell is all about getting our chiropractic patients moving and keeping them moving.
FEAR OF MOVING…AND MORE
Chronic back pain doesn’t just affect the back and spine. It influences 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 report significantly. (1) Dr. Butwell understands. It is reasonable to not want to prompt such back pain if one can escape it. Dr. Butwell urges slow and gradual return to everyday life motions and to do it one day at a time.
MOVEMENT IS PART OF THE Georgetown CHIROPRACTIC TREATMENT HEALING PLAN
Dr. Butwell reports 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 Georgetown 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 Georgetown chiropractor at Dr. Butwell 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 accepted that chronic low back pain patients and older people respond with different muscle responses to various physical tasks than those who don’t have chronic low back pain. Chronic low back pain sufferers experience balance issues, too. Their trunk muscle activation during balance tasks is worse. (3) Dr. Butwell can discover much about Georgetown back pain patient’s condition with some of the most unassuming tests…and individualize the treatment plan as required: Cox® Technic, nutrition and exercise.
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