Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation Cautions Back Pain Sufferers About Lifting and Flexion
Controversy. There’s always controversy in medicine. Controversy can also push medicine to clarity. Such is the case of flexed lifting and its effect on your spine. Your Carrolltown chiropractor cautions Carrolltown back pain patients to cautiously bend, lift and twist as these create low back pain for lots of us. Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation still does. Recent studies describe more about the effects of flexion and lifting on the spine and its experience of back pain.
FLEXION LIFTING: NO INFLUENCE
A new research study examined several studies about the effect of lumbar spine flexion lifting and its influence on low back pain onset/persistence. Researchers discovered that lumbar spine flexion lifting wasn’t a differentiator for people with and without low back pain. These studies weren’t specific as to categories of people. They looked at two kinds of people: those with and those without back pain. (1) Other studies looked at specific types of people.
FLEXION LIFTING: INFLUENTIAL FOR WORKERS
Researchers concluded that the effect of forward bending on low back pain is determined by on the type of job, gender and other such specific factors of workers. They found that construction workers’ experience of low back pain was not influenced by the amount of time they spent bending forward. They discovered that healthcare workers’ experience of low back pain was altered by the angle of forward bending (more than or equal to 30 degrees triggered low back pain while over 60 degree did not). (2) Warehouse workers’ experience of low back pain is affected by their lifting capacity and psychosocial work environment. Researchers asked workers via text about their low back pain, mental stress, and bodily fatigue over the course of 3 weeks then at one year. They hoped that a better designed work week (work days vs rest days) and a set reasonable maximum lifting threshold per day will assist in preventing low back pain and lessen stress. (3) Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation works to make sure our work environment is stress-less and low-back-pain-reducing for everyone, our staff and our Carrolltown chiropractic patients equally!
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Listen to this PODCAST by Dr. Victor Shu on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson. He shares how The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management attained relief of low back pain for a construction worker whose job surely taxes his spine!
Schedule a back-pain-relieving Carrolltown chiropractic care appointment with Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation. Controversy aside, low back pain attributable to work environments that demand flexion bending and lifting can be well-managed at Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation.
