Carrolltown 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 typically a one and done condition, yet life marches forward and carries you with it. Pain lessens. You begin moving and performing what you did before. 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 lingering issues of Carrolltown 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 decreased lumbar spine range of motion the same 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 benefit!) Belts may allow for a slow return to physical work activities to prevent disability or maintain the motion of these activities after a low back pain episode. (1) Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation 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 the 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) Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation backs the use of tools that keep our Carrolltown back pain patients active and moving and confident in their ability to be active and mobile. We work with our patients to create a Carrolltown chiropractic treatment plan that may or may not involve a back belt 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 papers. Know that Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation 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 enjoy.
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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 related balance issues for which one test is the sit-to-stand test discussed in these papers.
Make your Carrolltown chiropractic appointment today. Carrolltown chiropractic care understands the wanting to not ever feel back pain again. We want our Carrolltown 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 incorporated into a treatment plan alongside spinal manipulation, nutrition, exercise, etc.
