Sitka Fall Prevention and Pain Relief with Chiropractic Care
Falls can happen at any age. Falls can cause great harm or little harm at all. Falling once surely can increase the level of fear of falling again. All these bits of information indicate that falls are a concern, a concern that is age blind. Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka always questions our Sitka chiropractic patients if they’ve fallen recently. Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka is in favor of interventions like exercise that may reduce the fear of falls, the impact of falls and the incidence of falls. Plus, Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka is really good at relieving Sitka back pain or neck pain that develops.
OLDER FOLKS AND FALLS
Older folks reside at home alone and with others or in community-based housing. Each scenario has a risk of falling. Rugs, pets, misreading steps, or any number of things can cause a fall. For these older friends and neighbors and relatives, the fear of falling is usual. Researchers have done research studies looking at exercise interventions that decrease the fear of falling and the risk of falling. Such trials with community-dwelling older persons encompassed planned, structured, repetitive physical activity oriented to improving strength, gait, balance and mood as well as decreasing falls. Some interventions tested are three dimensional like Tai Chi, Yoga, resistance training, and balance work. One meta-analysis of exercise trials described non-statistically significant benefits but benefits even so: an 11% reduction in people who fell, a 13% drop in falls, a 19% drop 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 showed significant improvements in physical performance, fall-related self-efficacy and fall methods. (2) They reported that such practices worked, particularly right after the intervention. (3) Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka would encourage our older Sitka patients to keep exercising to prolong these fall-prevention and fall-fear-reducing advantages!
YOUNGER FOLKS AND FALLS
Younger people can appreciate Sitka fall prevention strategies as falls may be just as detrimental to them. Falls and fall-related injuries endanger people at all ages. Falls at work and at home are a problem. A workplace trial that lasted 10 weeks for working age adults with a judo-inspired exercise program was designed to improve physical function, activity, fall-related self-efficacy and safe-landing techniques for a fall. Participants improved physically and psychologically. They gained techniques in how to fall safely as well as how to stop falls. (4) Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka supports exercise for all Sitka chiropractic family members, young and old, to keep strong and healthy in the face of challenges like falls. Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka 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 due to a fall implementing The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.
Schedule your Sitka chiropractic visit with Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka 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.
