Plainville 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 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 prior. Your activities of daily life get done. On occasions, 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 Plainville back pain.
BACK BELTS FOR WORKERS WHO LIFT, BEND, TWIST
A 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 evaluated for two outcomes: pain-related and biomechanical. As far as biomechanical outcomes go, both the belt types reduced lumbar spine range of motion the same in low back pain patients and in healthy volunteers doing 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 benefit!) Belts may allow for a steady return to physical work activities to avert disability or sustain the motion of these activities after a low back pain event. (1) Layden 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 the 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 decreased pain intensity, pain-related anxiety, and pain catastrophizing. The researchers suggested that either type of belt may be helpful in activities of daily living of patients with low back pain and of healthy office workers. (2) Layden Chiropractic backs the use of tools that keep our Plainville back pain patients active and moving and confident in their ability to be active and moving. We work with our patients to design a Plainville chiropractic treatment plan that may or may not involve a back belt and watch its use so that it remains a helpful tool and not a hindrance to healing.
USING A BACK BELT
We don’t want you to fear using a back belt for a while. There is some controversy over belt use, but a back belt may also help as shown in these papers. Know that Layden 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 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 related balance issues for which one test is the sit-to-stand test discussed in these papers.
Set up your Plainville chiropractic appointment now. Plainville chiropractic care understands the desire to not ever feel back pain again. We want our Plainville back pain patients to know that there is hope, there is a way, and there is a return to life and its activities with tools like back belts incorporated into a treatment plan alongside spinal manipulation, nutrition, exercise, etc.
