Plainville Chiropractic Incorporates Abdominal Bracing and Back Brace Wearing for Patients to Protect Their Spines
Daily laborer or weekend warrior…how to do prepare for spine-demanding tasks? What do you do when you have to move a weighty package? Get the back brace or brace yourself? The “brace yourself” option may be the better approach! Layden Chiropractic recommends back braces for back pain patients who may benefit from their support. We also propose self-controlled actions to Plainville back pain sufferers to protect the spine when its use is required (hefting boxes, digging holes, raking, etc.)
BACK BRACES FOR BACK PAIN PREVENTION: Not All It Seems
Asymptomatic workers were directed to wear back belts at work with the intention of lessening low back pain or injury. 1380 published medical studies were reviewed. Reviewers uncovered no consistent evidence for back brace use to avoid low back pain or occupational back pain in workers. Absenteeism was not reduced with back belt utilization either. (1) Mind you, this review was of back brace wearing by asymptomatic workers. In this situation, the back belt is not for everyone. Now for Plainville back pain sufferers, the back belt has advantages. Non-rigid lumbar support belts are reported to help non-specific low back pain sufferers with their pain and disability. (3) Deciding whether to use a belt or not is where your Plainville back pain specialist at Layden Chiropractic comes in to figure out what is optimal for each back pain sufferer. Each Plainville back pain sufferer – office worker, factory worker, family manager, etc. - is unique and must be addressed individually. Putting a back brace on all workers to try to decrease back pain for a few doesn’t work as this paper shows that a back brace may benefit some but not all.
ABDOMINAL BRACING MAY WORK BETTER
Abdominal bracing is a self-regulated, pre-activity motion, a deliberate way of enhancing spine stiffness to constrain spine displacement ahead of a spine-demanding task. It appears to work according to researchers! Abdominal bracing is individually controlled. In a recent study, abdominal bracing significantly decreased sagittal plane motion from the lower thoracic spine (T12) throughout the lower lumbar spine (L4L5): by 45% at L4L5, by 94% at L1L2, and 50% at L5S1. Such self-bracing stimulated all abdominal and back muscles. Flexion motion was restricted at most of lumbar spine levels when challenging trunk flexion demands are met with abdominal bracing. (2) It’s worth knowing how to do! Layden Chiropractic is ready to demonstrate you how to do this worthy move as part of your Plainville chiropractic treatment plan!
SPINAL MANIPULATION WORKS FOR BACK PAIN
Layden Chiropractic offers a comprehensive chiropractic treatment plan for those occasions when the back pain just will not go away. When work duties or chores result in your spine - cervical, thoracic or lumbar - hurting, The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management mixes gentle, relieving spinal manipulation with specific exercise and nutritional advice to return you back to life.
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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Jenna Kloor on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as she describes the value of helping a patient be able to do something like walking to help herself as she recuperated from her back pain episode with The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management and even enable her to shovel snow!
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