San Jose Fall Prevention and Pain Relief with Chiropractic Care
Falls can occur at any age. Falls can cause much harm or little harm at all. Falling once surely can increase the intensity of fear of falling again. All these bits of information highlight the fact that falls are am issue, an issue that is age blind. Chiropractic Solutions always questions our San Jose chiropractic patients if they have fallen lately. Chiropractic Solutions backs interventions like exercise that may decrease the fear of falls, the impact of falls and the incidence of falls. Plus, Chiropractic Solutions is really good at relieving San Jose back pain or neck pain that ensues.
OLDER FOLKS AND FALLS
Older folks live at home by themselves and with others or in community-based accommodations. Each situation carries 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 not unusual. 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 geared toward 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% drop in injuries from falls. (1) Another study of aged 60-88 year olds that used 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 techniques. (2) They reported that such practices worked, particularly immediately following the intervention. (3) Chiropractic Solutions would support our older San Jose patients’ continued exercising to extend these fall-prevention and fall-fear-reducing benefits!
YOUNGER FOLKS AND FALLS
Younger people can benefit from San Jose fall prevention strategies as falls may be detrimental to them, too. Falls and fall-related injuries jeopardize 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 worked on improving physical function, activity, fall-related self-efficacy and safe-landing methods for a fall. Participants got better physically and psychologically. They gathered techniques in how to fall safely and how to prevent falls. (4) Chiropractic Solutions supports exercise for all San Jose chiropractic family members, young and old, to keep strong and healthy in the face of challenges like falls. Chiropractic Solutions helps ease 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 following The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.
Schedule your San Jose chiropractic visit with Chiropractic Solutions to remove the fear of falling, the pain out of a fall, and the risk of a fall and reduce it with some advice on strengthening exercise in addition to back pain-relieving chiropractic care.
