Concord, NC 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 goes on and takes you with it. Pain diminishes. You start moving and performing what you did before. Your activities of daily life get finished. Sometimes, it takes a little longer to get back to the activities and/or the way you do the activities. Back belts may come in handy with these residual issues of Concord, NC 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 equally in low back pain patients and in healthy volunteers performing small and deep trunk flexion motions. (Yay!) Both belts also decreased pain, the fear of pain, and the catastrophizing of pain in the back pain patients. (Another great outcome!) Belts may permit for a gradual return to physical work activities to prevent disability or sustain the motion of these activities after a low back pain episode. (1) Pure Chiropractic 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 three groups (those with back pain who used either type of belt and those who were healthy office workers) benefitted sit-to-stand movement. For the back pain patients, belt use reduced pain intensity, pain-related anxiety, and pain catastrophizing. The researchers suggested that either type of belt may be beneficial in daily life activities of patients with low back pain and of healthy office workers. (2) Pure Chiropractic backs the use of tools that keep our Concord, NC back pain patients active and moving and confident in their ability to be active and mobile. We work with our patients to create a Concord, NC chiropractic treatment plan that may or may not incorporate a back belt and monitor 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 described in these papers. Know that Pure Chiropractic 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 like.
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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 related balance issues for which one test is the sit-to-stand test discussed in these studies.
Set up your Concord, NC chiropractic appointment today. Concord, NC chiropractic care gets the desire to not ever feel back pain again. We want our Concord, NC 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 integrated into a treatment plan with spinal manipulation, nutrition, exercise, etc.
