Auburn Back Pain Recovery and Movement Helped with Back Belts
Once you experience low back pain, you do not want to experience it again. Back pain, though, is not commonly a one and done condition, yet life goes on and takes you with it. Pain diminishes. You start 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 lingering 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 equally in low back pain patients and in healthy volunteers doing small and deep trunk flexion motions. (Yay!) Both belts also decreased pain, the fear of pain, and the catastrophizing of pain in the back pain patients. (Another great outcome!) Belts may permit for a steady return to physical work activities to avert disability or sustain the motion of these activities after a low back pain episode. (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) enhanced sit-to-stand movement. For the back pain patients, belt use decreased pain intensity, pain-related anxiety, and pain catastrophizing. The researchers suggested that either type of belt may be helpful in activities of daily living of patients with low back pain and of healthy office workers. (2) Dr. Le's Chiropractic & Wellness, L.L.C. backs the use of tools that keep our Auburn back pain patients active and mobile and confident in their ability to be active and mobile. We work with our patients to create a Auburn chiropractic treatment plan that may or may not include a back belt 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 belt for a time. 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 of value. 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 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 discussed in these papers.
Schedule your Auburn chiropractic appointment today. Auburn chiropractic care understands the wanting to not ever feel back pain again. We want our Auburn 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.
