Once you feel
low back pain, you don’t want to feel it again.
Back pain, though, is not commonly a one and done condition,
yet life marches forward and carries you with it. Pain
diminishes. You start moving and performing
what you did prior. Your
activities of daily life get finished. 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 Tonawanda 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 performing small and deep trunk flexion
motions. (Yay!) Both belts also reduced pain, the fear of pain,
and the catastrophizing of pain in the back pain patients. (Another great
outcome!) Belts may permit for a steady
return to physical work activities to prevent disability or maintain
the motion of these activities after a low back pain episode. (1) Chiropractic Spine Sports And Rehabilitation 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 performed. Biomechanically, belt use in all three
groups (those with back pain who wore 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 helpful in daily life activities of patients with low back pain and of healthy
office workers. (2) Chiropractic Spine Sports And Rehabilitation backs the use of tools that
keep our Tonawanda back pain patients active and mobile
and confident in their ability to be active and moving. We work with
our patients to design a Tonawanda chiropractic treatment plan that may or may not incorporate
a back belt and watch its use so that it
remains a beneficial tool and not a deterrent to healing.
USING A BACK
BELT
We don’t
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 Chiropractic Spine Sports And Rehabilitation 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.
CONTACT
Chiropractic Spine Sports And Rehabilitation
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 associated balance issues for which one test
is the sit-to-stand test described in these papers.
Set
up your Tonawanda chiropractic appointment
today. Tonawanda chiropractic care gets
the desire to not ever feel back pain again. We want our
Tonawanda back pain patients to realize that there is hope,
there is help, 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.