Manchester Back Pain Recovery and Movement Helped with Back Belts

Once you feel low back pain, you do not 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 lessens. You begin moving and doing 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 Manchester back pain.

BACK BELTS FOR WORKERS WHO LIFT, BEND, TWIST

A study of material handlers with back pain assessed the use of extensible, non-extensible, and no belts in healthy and in back pain patients. The researchers checked for two outcomes: pain-related and biomechanical. As far as biomechanical outcomes go, both the belt types decreased lumbar spine range of motion equally 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 slow return to physical work activities to prevent disability or retain the motion of these activities after a low back pain event. (1) Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries 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) enhanced 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) Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries backs the use of tools that keep our Manchester back pain patients active and moving and confident in their ability to be active and moving. We work with our patients to design a Manchester chiropractic treatment plan that may or may not include a back brace and watch its use so that it remains a beneficial tool and not a hindrance to recovery.

USING A BACK BELT

We don’t 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 papers. Know that Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries will work with you and your specific condition as to whether back belt use may be of value. All of us just want pain relief and a return to activities that you like.

CONTACT Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries

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 discussed in these papers.

Schedule your Manchester chiropractic appointment today. Manchester chiropractic care gets the desire to not ever feel back pain again. We want our Manchester 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 integrated into a treatment plan alongside spinal manipulation, nutrition, exercise, etc. 

Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries offers support for the benefit of back belts for back pain sufferers as they resume activities of daily living. 
 
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