Vancouver Fear of Back Pain Relieved with Vancouver Spine Care Centre

Fear of the “damaged spine.” It’s a most common feeling to have about a lot of things in life. Fear avoidance. It’s common for Vancouver back pain sufferers. When back pain becomes part of life, fear avoidant behavior also creeps in with it. Back pain specialists like your Vancouver chiropractic physician are aware of the influences of fear and fear avoidance on Vancouver back pain and neck pain patients. Fear keeps Vancouver back pain sufferers from doing the simplest things because they worry that they may experience pain. The spine is rather resilient, but when it is damaged its sturdiness fades in the mind of its owner. Vancouver Spine Care Centre assists Vancouver back pain sufferers manage the fear of back pain through information, care, and movement.

The Sense of Fear

Fear itself makes sense. If you feel 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 cauess leg pain. If you suffer with back pain when you move, you seek not to move like that to avoid back pain. Avoiding back pain-provoking activity for a Vancouver 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 huge deal out of it, he or she doesn’t get caught in trying to avoid movement, in the fear avoidance cycle. (1) Vancouver Spine Care Centre empathizes with the Vancouver back pain patient who does not desire to move too much because of fear that his or her back will hurt again or maybe even worse than that last time. Vancouver Spine Care Centre successfully gets Vancouver back pain sufferers moving and performing their normal activities of daily life one small motion at a time!

Gentle Care and Motion

Vancouver Spine Care Centre integrates motion into its in-office chiropractic care and its at-home recommendation care. Vancouver Spine Care Centre 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 control the pain. (2) The Vancouver chiropractic treatment plan at Vancouver Spine Care Centre includes gentle, comforting Cox Technic to open the spinal canal and relieve 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 seek non-surgical care like that offered at Vancouver Spine Care Centre. 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 Vancouver chiropractic appointment at Vancouver Spine Care Centre to ease your fear of your “damaged back” and help you start moving again!