Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries Cautions Back Pain Sufferers About Lifting and Flexion
Controversy. There is always controversy in medicine. Controversy can also move medicine toward clarity. Such is the case of flexed lifting and its impact on your spine. Your Manchester chiropractor cautions Manchester back pain patients to carefully bend, lift and twist as these start low back pain for many. Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries still does. New studies explain more about the effects of flexion and lifting on the spine and its experience of back pain.
FLEXION LIFTING: NO INFLUENCE
The latest research study examined a number of studies about the impact lumbar spine flexion has and its influence on low back pain onset/persistence. Researchers discovered that lumbar spine flexion lifting wasn’t a differentiator for people with and without low back pain. These investigations were not specific as to types of people. They studied two types of people: those with and those without back pain. (1) Other research projects studied specific types of people.
FLEXION LIFTING: INFLUENTIAL FOR WORKERS
Researchers concluded that the effect 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 quantity of time they were bending forward. They found that healthcare workers’ experience of low back pain was altered by the angle of forward bending (more than or equal to 30 degrees prompted low back pain while over 60 degree did not). (2) Warehouse workers’ experience of low back pain is influenced by their lifting capacity and psychosocial work environment. Researchers asked workers via text about their low back pain, mental stress, and bodily fatigue over the course of 3 weeks and again at one year. They hoped that a better design of the work week (work days vs rest days) and a set reasonable maximum lifting threshold per day will help prevent low back pain and lessen stress. (3) Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries works to make sure our work environment is stress-less and low-back-pain-diminishing for everyone, our staff and our Manchester 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 shares how The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management attained relief for a construction worker with low back pain whose job surely taxes his spine!
Schedule a back-pain-relieving Manchester chiropractic care appointment with Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries. Controversy aside, low back pain attributable to work environments that require flexion bending and lifting can be well-managed at Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries.
