Minster 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 takes you with it. Pain diminishes. You get moving and performing what you did prior. Your activities of daily life get done. On occasions, it takes a bit longer to return to the activities and/or the way you do the activities. Back belts may help with these residual issues of Minster back pain.
BACK BELTS FOR WORKERS WHO LIFT, BEND, TWIST
One study of material handlers with back pain compared the use of extensible, non-extensible, and no belts in healthy and in back pain patients. The researchers checked 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 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 benefit!) 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) Minster 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 the groups (those with back pain who used 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) Minster Chiropractic Center favors the use of tools that keep our Minster back pain patients active and mobile and confident in their ability to be active and mobile. We work with our patients to create a Minster chiropractic treatment plan that may or may not include a back brace and monitor its use so that it remains a helpful tool and not a hindrance to healing.
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 Minster Chiropractic Center 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 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 managing spinal stenosis and associated balance issues for which one test is the sit-to-stand test described in these studies.
Set up your Minster chiropractic appointment now. Minster chiropractic care understands the wanting to not ever feel back pain again. We want our Minster back pain patients to know that there is hope, there is help, 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.
