San Jose Fear of Back Pain Relieved with Chiropractic Solutions

September 05, 2017

Fear of the “damaged spine.” It is a most common feeling to have about a lot of things in life. Fear avoidance. It’s common in San Jose back pain sufferers. When back pain enters the scene, fear avoidant behavior tends to creep in with it. Back pain specialists like your San Jose chiropractic physician recognize the influences of fear and fear avoidance on San Jose back pain and neck pain patients. Fear keeps San Jose back pain sufferers from doing the simplest things because they worry that they may hurt. The spine is pretty sturdy, but when it is damaged its resiliency disappears in the mind of its owner. Chiropractic Solutions assists San Jose back pain sufferers cope with the fear of back pain with information, care, and movement.

The Sense of Fear

Fear itself makes sense. If you feel 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 experience back pain when you move, you attempt not to move like that to avoid back pain. Avoiding back pain-provoking activity for a San Jose back pain sufferer wanting to protect his or her damaged back makes good sense. Researchers explain though that if a back pain sufferer feels pain in the early days of back pain and does not make a big deal out of it, he or she does not get trapped in trying to avoid movement, in the fear avoidance cycle. (1) Chiropractic Solutions understands with the San Jose back pain patient who does not desire to move too much due to fear that his or her back will hurt again or maybe even worse than before. Chiropractic Solutions positively gets San Jose back pain sufferers moving and doing their normal activities of daily life one small motion at a time!

Gentle Care and Motion

Chiropractic Solutions joins motion into its in-office chiropractic care and its at-home recommendation care. Chiropractic Solutions is all about motion and relieving back pain and the fear that accompanies 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 manage the pain. (2) The San Jose chiropractic treatment plan at Chiropractic Solutions encompasses gentle, soothing Cox Technic to make larger the spinal canal and lighten pressure on the spinal nerves and bring motion back to the spine as the back pain and/or leg pain improves.

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Fear may be a good thing, too. Fear of back surgery may get a back pain sufferer to seek non-surgical care like that offered at Chiropractic Solutions. 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 stopped due to pain!

Schedule a San Jose chiropractic appointment at Chiropractic Solutions to ease your fear of your “damaged back” and help you start moving again!