St Peters Fear of Back Pain Relieved with Old Mill Chiropractic
Fear of the “damaged spine.” It’s a most common feeling to have about a lot of things in life. Fear avoidance. It’s common in St Peters back pain sufferers. When back pain becomes part of life, fear avoidant behavior also creeps in with it. Back pain specialists like your St Peters chiropractic physician recognize the influences of fear and fear avoidance on St Peters back pain and neck pain patients. Fear limits St Peters back pain sufferers from doing the simplest things out of concern that they may make the pain worse. The spine is rather sturdy, but when it is damaged its sturdiness disappears in the mind of its owner. Old Mill Chiropractic helps St Peters back pain sufferers cope with the fear of back pain via information, care, and movement.
The Sense of Fear
Fear itself makes sense. If you suffer pain with something, you try to avoid that something like shuffling paper in a way that you get a paper cut or bending a certain way that produces leg pain. If you feel back pain when you move, you seek not to move like that to avoid back pain. Avoiding back pain-producing activity for a St Peters back pain sufferer wanting to protect his or her damaged back makes good sense. Researchers explain 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 does not get caught in trying to avoid movement, in the fear avoidance cycle. (1) Old Mill Chiropractic empathizes with the St Peters back pain patient who doesn’t want to move too much due to fear that his or her back will hurt again or maybe even worse than before. Old Mill Chiropractic successfully gets St Peters back pain sufferers moving and doing their normal activities of daily life one tiny motion at a time!
Gentle Care and Motion
Old Mill Chiropractic integrates motion into its in-office chiropractic care and its at-home recommendation care. Old Mill Chiropractic is all about motion and relieving back pain and the fear that goes along with it. Adding manipulation to the treatment of low back pain earlier enhanced the effectiveness of manipulation on back pain relief and lowered the use of medication to manage the pain. (2) The St Peters chiropractic treatment plan at Old Mill Chiropractic encompasses gentle, comforting Cox Technic to make larger the spinal canal and reduce pressure on the spinal nerves as well as bring motion back to the spine as the back pain and/or leg pain eases.
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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 Old Mill Chiropractic. Listen in to this podcast of a patient who didn’t want a second back surgery and found relief with Cox Technic. He even got back to exercising and moving which he stopped due to pain!
Schedule a St Peters chiropractic appointment at Old Mill Chiropractic to ease your fear of your “damaged back” and help you start moving again!
