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Auburn Back Pain Recovery and Movement Helped with Back Belts

Once you feel low back pain, you don’t want to feel it again. Back pain, though, is not typically a one and done condition, yet life marches forward and carries you with it. Pain diminishes. You begin moving and performing what you did prior.  Your activities of daily life get finished. On occasions, it takes a little longer to return to the activities and/or the way you do the activities. Back belts may come in handy with these residual issues of Auburn back pain.

BACK BELTS FOR WORKERS WHO LIFT, BEND, TWIST

One study of material handlers with back pain assessed the use of extensible, non-extensible, and no belts in back pain patients and healthy control volunteers. The researchers evaluated 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 performing 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 great outcome!) Belts may permit for a gradual return to physical work activities to prevent disability or sustain the motion of these activities after a low back pain event. (1) Dr. Le's Chiropractic & Wellness, L.L.C. 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 performed. Biomechanically, belt use in all three groups (those with back pain who wore either type of belt and those who were healthy office workers) benefitted sit-to-stand movement. For the back pain patients, belt use decreased pain intensity, pain-related anxiety, and pain catastrophizing. The researchers proposed that either type of belt may be beneficial in daily life activities of patients with low back pain and of healthy office workers. (2) Dr. Le's Chiropractic & Wellness, L.L.C. favors the use of tools that keep our Auburn back pain patients active and mobile and confident in their ability to be active and moving. We work with our patients to design a Auburn chiropractic treatment plan that may or may not involve a back brace and monitor its use so that it remains a beneficial tool and not a deterrent 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 shown in these studies. Know that Dr. Le's Chiropractic & Wellness, L.L.C. 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 like.

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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Nate McKee on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson. He describes his use of the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management for treating spinal stenosis and related balance issues for which one test is the sit-to-stand test described in these papers.

Make your Auburn chiropractic appointment now. Auburn chiropractic care gets the desire to not ever feel back pain again. We want our Auburn back pain patients to know that there is hope, there is a way, 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. 

Dr. Le's Chiropractic & Wellness, L.L.C. offers support for the benefit of back belts for back pain sufferers as they resume activities of daily living. 
 
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