Elgin 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 marches forward and carries you with it. Pain diminishes. You begin moving and doing what you did prior. Your activities of daily life get finished. Sometimes, it takes a little longer to return to the activities and/or the way you do the activities. Back belts may help with these residual issues of Elgin 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 decreased 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 allow for a steady return to physical work activities to prevent disability or retain the motion of these activities after a low back pain episode. (1) Connected 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 performed. 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 beneficial in daily life activities of patients with low back pain and of healthy office workers. (2) Connected Chiropractic backs the use of tools that keep our Elgin back pain patients active and moving and confident in their ability to be active and moving. We work with our patients to design a Elgin chiropractic treatment plan that may or may not involve a back belt and monitor its use so that it remains a beneficial tool and not a deterrent to healing.
USING A BACK BELT
We do not want you to fear using a back brace for a while. There is some controversy over belt use, but a back belt may also help as described in these studies. Know that Connected 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 managing spinal stenosis and related balance issues for which one test is the sit-to-stand test described in these studies.
Make your Elgin chiropractic appointment now. Elgin chiropractic care gets the desire to not ever feel back pain again. We want our Elgin 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 integrated into a treatment plan alongside spinal manipulation, nutrition, exercise, etc.
