Connected Chiropractic Cautions Back Pain Sufferers About Lifting and Flexion
Controversy. There is oftentimes controversy in medicine. Controversy can also move medicine toward clarity. Such is the case of flexed lifting and its impact on your spine. Your Elgin chiropractor cautions Elgin back pain patients to carefully bend, lift and twist as these spur low back pain for many. Connected Chiropractic still does. New studies describe more about the effects of flexion and lifting on the spine and its experience of back pain.
FLEXION LIFTING: NO INFLUENCE
A new research study analyzed several studies about the impact lumbar spine flexion has and its impact on low back pain onset/persistence. Researchers found that lumbar spine flexion lifting wasn’t a determining factor for people with and without low back pain. These studies weren’t specific as to categories of people. They studied two types of people: those with and those without back pain. (1) Other studies looked at specific types of people.
FLEXION LIFTING: INFLUENTIAL FOR WORKERS
Researchers decided that the result of forward bending on low back pain is determined by on the type of job, gender and other such particular factors of workers. They noticed that construction workers’ experience of low back pain was not influenced by the amount of time they spent bending forward. They discovered that healthcare workers’ experience of low back pain was altered by the angle of forward bending (more than or equal to 30 degrees triggered 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 then at one year. They anticipated that a better designed work week (work days vs rest days) and a set reasonable maximum lifting threshold per day will assist in preventing low back pain and lessen stress. (3) Connected Chiropractic works to ensure our work environment is stress-less and low-back-pain-reducing for everyone, our staff and our Elgin 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 describes how The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management attained relief for a construction worker with low back pain whose job surely strains his spine!
Schedule a back-pain-relieving Elgin chiropractic care appointment with Connected Chiropractic. Controversy aside, low back pain due to work environments that demand flexion bending and lifting can be helped at Connected Chiropractic.
