Juneau 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 commonly a one and done condition, yet life marches forward and carries you with it. Pain lessens. You get moving and performing what you did before. Your activities of daily life get finished. Sometimes, it takes a bit longer to get back to the activities and/or the way you do the activities. Back belts may help with these residual issues of Juneau 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 checked 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 as in healthy volunteers performing 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 gradual return to physical work activities to avert disability or maintain the motion of these activities after a low back pain episode. (1) Aurora Chiropractic Center 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 wore 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 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) Aurora Chiropractic Center backs the use of tools that keep our Juneau back pain patients active and mobile and confident in their ability to be active and moving. We work with our patients to design a Juneau chiropractic treatment plan that may or may not involve a back brace and watch 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 shown in these studies. Know that Aurora Chiropractic Center 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 treating spinal stenosis and associated balance issues for which one test is the sit-to-stand test discussed in these studies.
Make your Juneau chiropractic appointment soon. Juneau chiropractic care understands the desire to not ever feel back pain again. We want our Juneau back pain patients to realize that there is hope, there is help, and there is a return to life and its activities with tools like back belts incorporated into a treatment plan alongside spinal manipulation, nutrition, exercise, etc.
