Millville Fear of Back Pain Relieved with Wilson Family Chiropractic

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 Millville back pain sufferers. When back pain enters the scene, fear avoidant behavior tends to creep in with it. Back pain specialists like your Millville chiropractic physician recognize the effects of fear and fear avoidance on Millville back pain and neck pain patients. Fear prevents Millville back pain sufferers from doing the simplest things out of concern that they may make the pain worse. The spine is rather sturdy, but when it’s damaged its resiliency fades in the mind of its owner. Wilson Family Chiropractic helps Millville back pain sufferers contain the fear of back pain with information, care, and movement.

The Sense of Fear

Fear itself makes sense. If you have 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 elicits leg pain. If you feel back pain when you move, you try not to move like that to avoid back pain. Avoiding back pain-provoking activity for a Millville back pain sufferer wanting to protect his or her damaged back makes good sense. Researchers point out though that if a back pain sufferer feels pain in the early days of back pain and doesn’t make a big deal out of it, he or she doesn’t get caught in trying to avoid movement, in the fear avoidance cycle. (1) Wilson Family Chiropractic empathizes with the Millville back pain patient who does not desire to move too much out of fear that his or her back will hurt again or maybe even worse than before. Wilson Family Chiropractic positively gets Millville back pain sufferers moving and doing their normal activities of daily life one tiny motion at a time!

Gentle Care and Motion

Wilson Family Chiropractic integrates motion into its in-office chiropractic care and its at-home recommendation care. Wilson Family Chiropractic is all about motion and relieving back pain and the fear that goes along with it. Incorporating manipulation to the treatment of low back pain earlier increased the success of manipulation on back pain relief and lowered the use of medication to manage the pain. (2) The Millville chiropractic treatment plan at Wilson Family Chiropractic encompasses gentle, soothing Cox Technic to open the spinal canal and lessen 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 get a back pain sufferer to seek non-surgical care as available at Wilson Family Chiropractic. Listen in to this podcast of a patient who didn’t want a second back surgery and found relief with Cox Technic. He even returned to exercising and moving which he stopped due to pain!

Schedule a Millville chiropractic appointment at Wilson Family Chiropractic to lessen your fear of your “damaged back” and help you start moving again!