Manchester Fear of Back Pain Relieved with Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries
Fear of the “damaged spine.” It’s a most common feeling to have about a lot of things in life. Fear avoidance. It is common for Manchester back pain sufferers. When back pain becomes part of life, fear avoidant behavior tends to creep in with it. Back pain specialists like your Manchester chiropractic physician recognize the effects of fear and fear avoidance on Manchester back pain and neck pain patients. Fear limits Manchester back pain sufferers from doing the simplest things out of concern that they may hurt. The spine is pretty resilient, but when it is damaged its resiliency fades in the mind of its owner. Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries assists Manchester back pain sufferers manage the fear of back pain through information, care, and movement.
The Sense of Fear
Fear itself makes sense. If you experience 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 produces leg pain. If you suffer with back pain when you move, you try not to move like that to avoid back pain. Avoiding back pain-producing activity for a Manchester back pain sufferer wanting to protect his or her damaged back makes good sense. Researchers point out though that if a back pain sufferer feels pain in the early days of back pain and doesn’t make a huge deal out of it, he or she does not get trapped in trying to avoid movement, in the fear avoidance cycle. (1) Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries empathizes with the Manchester back pain patient who does not desire to move too much because of fear that his or her back will hurt again or maybe even worse than that last time. Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries positively gets Manchester back pain sufferers moving and performing their normal activities of daily life one small motion at a time!
Gentle Care and Motion
Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries integrates motion into its in-office chiropractic care and its at-home recommendation care. Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries 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 increased the success of manipulation on back pain relief and decreased the use of medication to control the pain. (2) The Manchester chiropractic treatment plan at Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries includes 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 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 as available at Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries. 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 Manchester chiropractic appointment at Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries to lessen your fear of your “damaged back” and help you start moving again!
