Most Chiropractic Clinic Cautions Back Pain Sufferers About Lifting and Flexion
Controversy. There is oftentimes controversy in medicine. Controversy can also push medicine toward clarity. Such is the case of flexed lifting and its impact on your spine. Your Murfreesboro chiropractor cautions Murfreesboro back pain patients to carefully bend, lift and twist as these start low back pain for many. Most Chiropractic Clinic 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
The latest research study analyzed numerous studies about the impact lumbar spine flexion has and its impact on low back pain onset/persistence. Researchers discovered 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 types of people: those with and those without back pain. (1) Other studies looked at specific kinds of people.
FLEXION LIFTING: INFLUENTIAL FOR WORKERS
Researchers decided that the effect of forward bending on low back pain is determined by on the kind of job, gender and other such specific factors of workers. They found that construction workers’ experience of low back pain wasn’t affected by the amount of time they spent bending forward. They found 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 affected 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 and again 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 help prevent low back pain and reduce stress. (3) Most Chiropractic Clinic works to ensure our work environment is stress-less and low-back-pain-reducing for everyone, our staff and our Murfreesboro chiropractic patients alike!
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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 managed relief for a construction worker with low back pain whose job surely taxes his spine!
Schedule a back-pain-relieving Murfreesboro chiropractic care appointment with Most Chiropractic Clinic. Controversy aside, low back pain attributable to work environments that require flexion bending and lifting can be well-managed at Most Chiropractic Clinic.
