Groton Fall Prevention and Pain Relief with Chiropractic Care
Falls can occur at any age. Falls can trigger great harm or little harm at all. Falling once surely can increase the level of fear of falling again. All these bits of information point out that falls are am issue, an issue that is age blind. Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office always inquires our Groton chiropractic patients if they have fallen lately. Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office backs interventions like exercise that may decrease the fear of falls, the impact of falls and the incidence of falls. Plus, Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office is really good at relieving Groton back pain or neck pain that ensues.
OLDER FOLKS AND FALLS
Older folks reside at home alone and with others or in community-based housing. Each situation has a risk of falling. Rugs, pets, misreading steps, or any number of things can result in a fall. For these older friends and neighbors and relatives, the fear of falling is not uncommon. Researchers have done research studies looking at exercise interventions that reduce the fear of falling as well as the risk of falling. Such trials with community-dwelling older persons incorporated planned, structured, repetitive physical activity oriented to enhancing strength, gait, balance and mood as well as decreasing falls. Some interventions tried are three dimensional like Tai Chi, Yoga, resistance training, and balance work. A meta-analysis of exercise trials reported on non-statistically significant benefits but benefits even so: an 11% decrease in people who fell, a 13% decrease in falls, a 19% decrease 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 revealed significant improvements in physical performance, fall-related self-efficacy and fall techniques. (2) They reported that such practices worked, particularly right after the intervention. (3) Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office would encourage our older Groton patients to keep exercising to prolong these fall-prevention and fall-fear-reducing benefits!
YOUNGER FOLKS AND FALLS
Younger people can appreciate Groton fall prevention strategies as falls may be just as detrimental to them. Falls and fall-related injuries jeopardize people at all ages. Falls at work and at home are a problem. A workplace trial of 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 techniques for a fall. Participants improved physically and psychologically. They practiced techniques in how to fall safely as well as how to stop falls. (4) Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office supports exercise for all Groton chiropractic family members, young and old, to keep strong and healthy in the face of challenges like falls. Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office 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 using The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.
Schedule your Groton chiropractic visit with Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office to remove the fear of falling, the pain out of a fall, and the chance of a fall and decrease it with some advice on strengthening exercise in addition to back pain-relieving chiropractic care.
