Fernandina Beach Back Pain Recovery and Movement Helped with Back Belts
Once you feel low back pain, you do not want to experience it again. Back pain, though, is not commonly a one and done condition, yet life marches forward and takes you with it. Pain lessens. You begin moving and doing what you did prior. Your activities of daily life get finished. On occasions, it takes a bit longer to get back to the activities and/or the way you do the activities. Back belts may come in handy with these residual issues of Fernandina Beach back pain.
BACK BELTS FOR WORKERS WHO LIFT, BEND, TWIST
One study of material handlers with back pain compared the use of extensible, non-extensible, and no belts in healthy and in back pain patients. The researchers checked for two outcomes: pain-related and biomechanical. As far as biomechanical outcomes go, both the belt types reduced lumbar spine range of motion the same in low back pain patients as in healthy volunteers doing small and deep trunk flexion motions. (Yay!) Both belts also reduced pain, the fear of pain, and the catastrophizing of pain in the back pain patients. (Another benefit!) Belts may permit for a gradual return to physical work activities to avert disability or sustain the motion of these activities after a low back pain event. (1) Amelia Chiropractic Clinic appreciates these additions to the healing process.
BACK BELTS FOR OFFICE WORKERS
Another study of extensible, non-extensible, and no belt use in low back pain office workers was done. Biomechanically, belt use in all three groups (those with back pain who used either type of belt and those who were healthy office workers) enhanced sit-to-stand movement. For the back pain patients, belt use reduced pain intensity, pain-related anxiety, and pain catastrophizing. The researchers proposed that either type of belt may be beneficial in activities of daily living of patients with low back pain and of healthy office workers. (2) Amelia Chiropractic Clinic backs the use of tools that keep our Fernandina Beach back pain patients active and moving and confident in their ability to be active and moving. We work with our patients to design a Fernandina Beach chiropractic treatment plan that may or may not include a back brace and observe its use so that it remains a helpful tool and not a hindrance to recovery.
USING A BACK BELT
We don’t want you to fear using a back brace for a while. There is some controversy over belt use, but a back belt may also help as described in these papers. Know that Amelia Chiropractic Clinic will work with you and your specific condition as to whether back belt use may be beneficial. All of us just want pain relief and a return to activities that you enjoy.
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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Nate McKee on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson. He discusses his use of the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management for managing spinal stenosis and associated balance issues for which one test is the sit-to-stand test described in these papers.
Schedule your Fernandina Beach chiropractic appointment soon. Fernandina Beach chiropractic care understands the wanting to not ever feel back pain again. We want our Fernandina Beach back pain patients to realize that there is hope, there is help, and there is a return to life and its activities via tools like back belts integrated into a treatment plan alongside spinal manipulation, nutrition, exercise, etc.
