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 typically a one and done condition, yet life goes on and takes you with it. Pain diminishes. You get moving and doing what you did prior. Your activities of daily life get finished. Sometimes, 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 lingering 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 back pain patients and healthy control volunteers. 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 equally in low back pain patients as in healthy volunteers doing 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 slow return to physical work activities to avert disability or maintain the motion of these activities after a low back pain episode. (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 done. Biomechanically, belt use in all three 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 reduced pain intensity, pain-related anxiety, and pain catastrophizing. The researchers suggested that either type of belt may be beneficial in activities of daily living 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 mobile 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 belt and watch its use so that it remains a helpful tool and not a deterrent to recovery.
USING A BACK BELT
We don’t want you to fear using a back brace for a time. There is some controversy over belt use, but a back belt may also help as shown 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.
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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 treating spinal stenosis and associated balance issues for which one test is the sit-to-stand test described in these papers.
Make your Manchester chiropractic appointment today. Manchester chiropractic care understands the desire to not ever feel back pain again. We want our Manchester back pain patients to know that there is hope, there is a way, and there is a return to life and its activities via tools like back belts integrated into a treatment plan with spinal manipulation, nutrition, exercise, etc.
