Baton Rouge Fear of Back Pain Relieved with Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers
Fear of the “damaged spine.” It’s a most common feeling to have about any number of things in life. Fear avoidance. It’s common in Baton Rouge back pain sufferers. When back pain enters the scene, fear avoidant behavior tends to creep in with it. Back pain specialists like your Baton Rouge chiropractic physician are aware of the influences of fear and fear avoidance on Baton Rouge back pain and neck pain patients. Fear limits Baton Rouge back pain sufferers from doing the simplest things out of concern that they may make the pain worse. The spine is rather resilient, but when it’s damaged its sturdiness fades in the mind of its owner. Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers assists Baton Rouge back pain sufferers manage the fear of back pain with information, care, and movement.
The Sense of Fear
Fear itself makes sense. If you experience pain with something, you seek to avoid that something like shuffling paper in a way that you get a paper cut or bending a certain way that provokes leg pain. If you have back pain when you move, you seek not to move like that to avoid back pain. Avoiding back pain-producing activity for a Baton Rouge back pain sufferer wanting to protect his or her damaged back makes good sense. Researchers point out though that if a back pain sufferer experiences 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) Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers understands with the Baton Rouge back pain patient who doesn’t want to move too much because of fear that his or her back will hurt again or maybe even worse than that last time. Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers successfully gets Baton Rouge back pain sufferers moving and doing their normal activities of daily life one tiny motion at a time!
Gentle Care and Motion
Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers integrates motion into its in-office chiropractic care and its at-home recommendation care. Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers is all about motion and easing back pain and the fear that accompanies it. Incorporating manipulation to the treatment of low back pain earlier sped up the effectiveness of manipulation on back pain relief and lowered the use of medication to manage the pain. (2) The Baton Rouge chiropractic treatment plan at Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers includes gentle, comforting Cox Technic to open 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 lessens.
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Fear may be a good thing, too. Fear of back surgery may spur a back pain sufferer to pursue non-surgical care like that offered at Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers. Listen in to this podcast of a patient who didn’t want a second back surgery and got relief with Cox Technic. He even returned to exercising and moving which he quit due to pain!
Schedule a Baton Rouge chiropractic appointment at Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers to lessen your fear of your “damaged back” and help you start moving again!
