Amelia Chiropractic Clinic Cautions Back Pain Sufferers About Lifting and Flexion
Controversy. There is always controversy in medicine. Controversy can also push medicine to clarity. Such is the case of lifting in a flexed position and its impact on your spine. Your Fernandina Beach chiropractor cautions Fernandina Beach back pain patients to cautiously bend, lift and twist as these initiate low back pain for many. Amelia Chiropractic Clinic still does. New studies describe more about the effects of flexion and lifting on the spine and its experience of back pain.
FLEXION LIFTING: NO INFLUENCE
The latest research study examined several studies about the effect of lumbar spine flexion lifting and its influence on low back pain onset/persistence. Researchers found that lumbar spine flexion lifting was not a determining factor for people with and without low back pain. These studies were not specific as to types of people. They studied two kinds of people: those with and those without back pain. (1) Other studies studied specific kinds of people.
FLEXION LIFTING: INFLUENTIAL FOR WORKERS
Researchers concluded that the effect of forward bending on low back pain is determined by on the kind of job, gender and other such specific factors of workers. They found that construction workers’ experience of low back pain wasn’t influenced by the quantity of time they were bending forward. They found that healthcare workers’ experience of low back pain was affected by the angle of forward bending (more than or equal to 30 degrees prompted low back pain while over 60 degree did not). (2) Warehouse workers’ experience of low back pain is affected by their lifting capacity and psychosocial work environment. Researchers asked workers via text about their low back pain, mental stress, and bodily fatigue over the course of 3 weeks then at one year. They anticipated that a better designed work week (work days vs rest days) and a set reasonable maximum lifting threshold per day will assist in preventing low back pain and lessen stress. (3) Amelia Chiropractic Clinic works to ensure our work environment is stress-less and low-back-pain-reducing for everyone, our staff and our Fernandina Beach chiropractic patients equally!
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Listen to this PODCAST by Dr. Victor Shu on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson. He shares how The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management attained relief for a construction worker with low back pain whose job surely strains his spine!
Schedule a back-pain-relieving Fernandina Beach chiropractic care appointment with Amelia Chiropractic Clinic. Controversy aside, low back pain due to work environments that require flexion bending and lifting can be well-managed at Amelia Chiropractic Clinic.
