Minster Chiropractic Incorporates Abdominal Bracing and Back Brace Wearing for Patients to Protect Their Spines
Daily laborer or weekend warrior…how to do get ready for spine-demanding tasks? What do you do when you have to relocate a weighty box? Get the back brace or brace yourself? The “brace yourself” option may be the better approach! Minster Chiropractic Center proposes back braces for back pain patients who may be helped by their support. We also propose self-controlled activities to Minster back pain sufferers to protect the spine when its use is demanded (moving boxes, digging holes, raking, etc.)
BACK BRACES FOR BACK PAIN PREVENTION: Not All It Seems
Asymptomatic workers were directed to wear back belts at work with the aim of reducing low back pain or injury. 1380 published medical studies were reviewed. Reviewers found no consistent evidence for back belt use to stop low back pain or occupational back pain in workers. Absenteeism was not reduced with back belt wearing either. (1) Mind you, this review was of back brace wearing by asymptomatic workers. In this circumstance, the back belt is not for everyone. Now for Minster back pain sufferers, the back belt has advantages. Non-rigid lumbar support belts are reported to help non-specific low back pain sufferers with their pain and disability. (3) Deciding whether to use a belt or not is where your Minster back pain specialist at Minster Chiropractic Center comes in to figure out what is optimal for each back pain sufferer. Each Minster back pain sufferer – office worker, factory worker, family manager, etc. - is unique and must be considered individually. Having all workers wear a back brace in an attempt to reduce back pain for a few does not work as this paper demonstrates that a back brace may work for some but not all.
ABDOMINAL BRACING MAY WORK BETTER
Abdominal bracing is a self-controlled, pre-activity motion, a deliberate way of increasing spine stiffness to restrict spine displacement ahead of a spine-demanding task. It seems to work according to researchers! Abdominal bracing is personally controlled. In a recent study, abdominal bracing significantly decreased sagittal plane motion from the lower thoracic spine (T12) through the lower lumbar spine (L4L5): by 45% at L4L5, by 94% at L1L2, and 50% at L5S1. Such self-bracing stimulated all abdominal and back muscles. Flexion motion was limited at the majority of lumbar spine levels when abrupt trunk flexion demands are met with abdominal bracing. (2) It’s worth knowing how to do! Minster Chiropractic Center is eager to show you how to do this worthy movement as part of your Minster chiropractic treatment plan!
SPINAL MANIPULATION WORKS FOR BACK PAIN
Minster Chiropractic Center uses a comprehensive chiropractic treatment plan for those times when the back pain just will not stop. When work duties or chores result in your spine - cervical, thoracic or lumbar - hurting, The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management mixes gentle, relieving spinal manipulation with specific exercise and nutritional advice to return you back to life.
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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Jenna Kloor on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as she describes the significance of helping a patient be able to do something like walking to help herself as she recovered from her back pain episode with The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management and even be able to shovel snow!
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