Pure Chiropractic 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 flexed lifting and its effect on your spine. Your Concord, NC chiropractor cautions Concord, NC back pain patients to carefully bend, lift and twist as these start low back pain for many. Pure Chiropractic still does. Recent studies explain 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 examined 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 investigations weren’t specific as to categories of people. They looked at two types of people: those with and those without back pain. (1) Other research projects studied specific types of people.
FLEXION LIFTING: INFLUENTIAL FOR WORKERS
Researchers decided that the effect of forward bending on low back pain is determined by on the type 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 amount of time they were bending forward. They found that healthcare workers’ experience of low back pain was altered by the angle of forward bending (more than or equal to 30 degrees prompted low back pain while over 60 degree did not). (2) Warehouse workers’ experience of low back pain is affected by their lifting capacity and psychosocial work environment. Researchers texted workers asking about their low back pain, mental stress, and bodily fatigue over the course of 3 weeks and again at one year. They anticipated that an improved design of the 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) Pure Chiropractic works to ensure our work environment is stress-less and low-back-pain-diminishing for everyone, our staff and our Concord, NC 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 attained relief for a construction worker with low back pain whose job surely taxes his spine!
Schedule a back-pain-relieving Concord, NC chiropractic care appointment with Pure Chiropractic. Controversy aside, low back pain attributable to work environments that demand flexion bending and lifting can be helped at Pure Chiropractic.
