Minster Chiropractic Center Cautions Back Pain Sufferers About Lifting and Flexion
Controversy. There’s always controversy in medicine. Controversy can also move medicine to clarity. Such is the case of lifting in a flexed position and its impact on your spine. Your Minster chiropractor cautions Minster back pain patients to cautiously bend, lift and twist as these initiate low back pain for lots of us. Minster Chiropractic Center 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 analyzed numerous studies about the effect of lumbar spine flexion lifting and its influence on low back pain onset/persistence. Researchers found that lumbar spine flexion lifting was not a determining factor for people with and without low back pain. These studies weren’t specific as to categories of people. They studied two kinds of people: those with and those without back pain. (1) Other studies studied specific types of people.
FLEXION LIFTING: INFLUENTIAL FOR WORKERS
Researchers decided that the effect of forward bending on low back pain depended on the kind of job, gender and other such specific factors of workers. They noticed that construction workers’ experience of low back pain was not influenced by the quantity of time they were bending forward. They discovered that healthcare workers’ experience of low back pain was affected by the angle of forward bending (more than or equal to 30 degrees triggered low back pain while over 60 degree didn’t). (2) Warehouse workers’ experience of low back pain is influenced by their lifting capacity and psychosocial work environment. Researchers questioned 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 design of the 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) Minster Chiropractic Center works to ensure our work environment is stress-less and low-back-pain-reducing for everyone, our staff and our Minster 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 describes how The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management managed relief for a construction worker with low back pain whose job surely strains his spine!
Schedule a back-pain-relieving Minster chiropractic care appointment with Minster Chiropractic Center. Controversy aside, low back pain attributable to work environments that require flexion bending and lifting can be helped at Minster Chiropractic Center.
