Manchester Fall Prevention and Pain Relief with Chiropractic Care
Falls can happen at any age. Falls can trigger great harm or not much harm at all. Falling once certainly can increase the level of fear of falling again. All these bits of information highlight the fact that falls are a concern, a concern that is age blind. Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries always inquires our Manchester chiropractic patients if they have fallen recently. Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries supports interventions like exercise that may decrease the fear of falls, the impact of falls and the incidence of falls. Plus, Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries is really good at relieving Manchester back pain or neck pain that develops.
OLDER FOLKS AND FALLS
Older folks reside 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 folks, the fear of falling is common. Researchers have organized research studies involving exercise interventions that reduce the fear of falling and the risk of falling. Such trials with community-dwelling older persons involved planned, structured, repetitive physical activity oriented to improving strength, gait, balance and mood in addition to decreasing falls. Some interventions tested are three dimensional,for example Tai Chi, Yoga, resistance training, and balance work. A meta-analysis of exercise trials described non-statistically significant benefits but benefits nonetheless: an 11% decrease in people who fell, a 13% decrease in falls, a 19% decrease in injuries from falls. (1) Another study of people between 60 and 88 years old that implemented 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 found that such practices worked, particularly right after the intervention. (3) Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries would support our older Manchester patients’ continued exercising to extend these fall-prevention and fall-fear-reducing advantages!
YOUNGER FOLKS AND FALLS
Younger people can appreciate Manchester fall prevention strategies as falls can be detrimental to them, too. Falls and fall-related injuries threaten people at all ages. Falls at work and at home are a problem. 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 skills for a fall. Participants improved physically and psychologically. They practiced techniques in how to fall safely and how to prevent falls. (4) Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries supports exercise for all Manchester chiropractic family members, young and old, to keep strong and healthy in the face of challenges like falls. Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries helps relieve 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 after a fall using The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.
Schedule your Manchester chiropractic visit with Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries to remove the fear of falling, the pain out of a fall, and the chance of a fall and decrease it with some guidance on strengthening exercise along with back pain-relieving chiropractic care.
