Murfreesboro Back Pain Recovery and Movement Helped with Back Belts
Once you feel low back pain, you don’t want to feel it again. Back pain, though, is not commonly a one and done condition, yet life marches forward and takes you with it. Pain lessens. You get moving and performing what you did prior. Your activities of daily life get done. Sometimes, it takes a little longer to get back to the activities and/or the way you do the activities. Back belts may help with these residual issues of Murfreesboro back pain.
BACK BELTS FOR WORKERS WHO LIFT, BEND, TWIST
A study of material handlers with back pain assessed 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 great outcome!) Belts may allow for a gradual return to physical work activities to prevent disability or sustain the motion of these activities after a low back pain event. (1) Most Chiropractic Clinic 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 three groups (those with back pain who wore 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 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) Most Chiropractic Clinic favors the use of tools that keep our Murfreesboro back pain patients active and moving and confident in their ability to be active and moving. We work with our patients to design a Murfreesboro chiropractic treatment plan that may or may not involve a back brace and watch its use so that it remains a helpful tool and not a hindrance to healing.
USING A BACK BELT
We do not want you to fear using a back belt for a time. There is some controversy over belt use, but a back belt may also help as shown in these papers. Know that Most Chiropractic Clinic 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 treating spinal stenosis and associated balance issues for which one test is the sit-to-stand test discussed in these papers.
Set up your Murfreesboro chiropractic appointment today. Murfreesboro chiropractic care understands the desire to not ever feel back pain again. We want our Murfreesboro back pain patients to realize that there is hope, there is a way, and there is a return to life and its activities with tools like back belts integrated into a treatment plan alongside spinal manipulation, nutrition, exercise, etc.
