Sandy Springs Fear of Back Pain Relieved with Cross Chiropractic Center

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 Sandy Springs back pain sufferers. When back pain becomes part of life, fear avoidant behavior tends to creep in with it. Back pain specialists like your Sandy Springs chiropractic physician are aware of the influences of fear and fear avoidance on Sandy Springs back pain and neck pain patients. Fear prevents Sandy Springs back pain sufferers from doing the simplest things because they worry that they may hurt. The spine is pretty resilient, but when it is damaged its sturdiness fades in the mind of its owner. Cross Chiropractic Center assists Sandy Springs 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 try 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 suffer with back pain when you move, you attempt not to move like that to avoid back pain. Avoiding back pain-producing activity for a Sandy Springs back pain sufferer wanting to protect his or her damaged back makes good sense. Researchers explain though that if a back pain sufferer experiences pain in the early days of back pain and doesn’t make a huge deal out of it, he or she doesn’t get trapped in trying to avoid movement, in the fear avoidance cycle. (1) Cross Chiropractic Center understands with the Sandy Springs 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 that last time. Cross Chiropractic Center positively gets Sandy Springs back pain sufferers moving and doing their normal activities of daily life one small motion at a time!

Gentle Care and Motion

Cross Chiropractic Center incorporates motion into its in-office chiropractic care and its at-home recommendation care. Cross Chiropractic Center is all about motion and relieving back pain and the fear that goes along with it. Adding manipulation to the treatment of low back pain earlier enhanced the effectiveness of manipulation on back pain relief and lowered the use of medication to control the pain. (2) The Sandy Springs chiropractic treatment plan at Cross Chiropractic Center encompasses gentle, soothing Cox Technic to make larger 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 get a back pain sufferer to pursue non-surgical care like that offered at Cross Chiropractic Center. 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 Sandy Springs chiropractic appointment at Cross Chiropractic Center to lessen your fear of your “damaged back” and get you moving!