Groton Fear of Back Pain Relieved with Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office

Fear of the “damaged spine.” It is a most common feeling to have about any number of things in life. Fear avoidance. It’s common in Groton back pain sufferers. When back pain becomes part of life, fear avoidant behavior also creeps in with it. Back pain specialists like your Groton chiropractic physician recognize the influences of fear and fear avoidance on Groton back pain and neck pain patients. Fear prevents Groton 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 sturdiness fades in the mind of its owner. Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office assists Groton back pain sufferers manage the fear of back pain with information, care, and movement.

The Sense of Fear

Fear itself makes sense. If you suffer 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 provokes leg pain. If you feel back pain when you move, you attempt not to move like that to avoid back pain. Avoiding back pain-producing activity for a Groton 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 doesn’t get trapped in trying to avoid movement, in the fear avoidance cycle. (1) Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office understands with the Groton back pain patient who doesn’t want to move too much out of fear that his or her back will hurt again or maybe even worse than before. Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office positively gets Groton back pain sufferers moving and doing their normal activities of daily life one small motion at a time!

Gentle Care and Motion

Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office joins motion into its in-office chiropractic care and its at-home recommendation care. Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office is all about motion and easing back pain and the fear that accompanies it. Adding 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 Groton chiropractic treatment plan at Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office encompasses gentle, soothing Cox Technic to open the spinal canal and reduce 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 spur a back pain sufferer to pursue non-surgical care as available at Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office. 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 quit due to pain!

Schedule a Groton chiropractic appointment at Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office to ease your fear of your “damaged back” and help you start moving again!