Daily laborer or weekend warrior…how to do get ready
for spine-demanding chores? What do you do when you must move a weighty package? Reach
for the back brace or brace yourself? The “brace yourself” alternative
may be the better approach! Hollstrom & Associates Inc proposes
back braces for back pain patients who may be helped by
their support. We also suggest self-controlled actions
to Largo back pain sufferers to safeguard the spine
when its use is required (hefting boxes, digging
holes, vacuuming, etc.)
BACK BRACES FOR BACK PAIN PREVENTION:
Not All It Seems
Asymptomatic workers were directed
to wear back belts at work with the aim of lessening
low back pain or injury. 1380 published medical studies were reviewed.
Reviewers found no consistent evidence for back belt
use to avoid low back pain or occupational back pain in
workers. Absenteeism was not reduced with back
belt wearing either. (1) Mind you, this review was of back
brace use by asymptomatic workers. In this situation,
the back belt is not for everyone. Now for Largo back pain sufferers, the back belt offers
benefits. Non-rigid lumbar support belts are reported to help
non-specific low back pain sufferers with their pain and disability. (3)
The decision of belt use is where
your Largo back pain specialist at Hollstrom & Associates Inc comes in to determine what is best for each back pain sufferer. Each Largo
back pain sufferer – office worker, factory worker, family manager, etc. - is unique
and must be considered individually. Putting a back brace on all workers to try
to decrease back pain for a few does not
work as this paper shows that a back brace may work
for some but not all.
ABDOMINAL BRACING MAY WORK BETTER
Abdominal bracing is a self-controlled,
pre-activity motion, a voluntary way of increasing
spine stiffness to constrain spine displacement ahead of a spine-demanding task. It seems to
work according to researchers! Abdominal bracing is individually
controlled. In a new study, abdominal bracing significantly decreased
sagittal plane motion from the lower thoracic spine (T12) through
the lower lumbar spine (L4L5): by 45% at L4L5, by 94% at L1L2, and 50% at L5S1.
Such self-bracing initiated all abdominal and back
muscles. Flexion motion was restricted at most
of lumbar spine levels when sudden trunk flexion
demands are encountered with abdominal bracing. (2) It is
worth knowing how to do! Hollstrom & Associates Inc is ready to show
you how to do this worthy move as part of your Largo
chiropractic treatment plan!
SPINAL MANIPULATION WORKS FOR BACK
PAIN
Hollstrom & Associates Inc offers
a comprehensive chiropractic treatment plan for those occasions
when the back pain just won’t go away. When work duties
or chores result in your spine - cervical, thoracic or lumbar -
hurting, The Cox® Technic System of
Spinal Pain Management combines gentle, relieving spinal
manipulation with specific exercise and nutritional advice to get
you back to life.
CONTACT Hollstrom & Associates Inc
Listen to this PODCAST
with Dr. Jenna Kloor on The
Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as she describes the value
of helping a patient be able to do something like walking to help herself as she
recovered from her back pain episode with The Cox®
Technic System of Spinal Pain Management and even be able to
shovel snow!
Schedule your Largo chiropractic
visit soon. We help our Largo workers and
weekend warriors avert and recuperate from spine
pain.