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.
CONTACT
Dr. Le's Chiropractic & Wellness, L.L.C.
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.