Largo Back Pain Recovery and Movement Helped with Back Belts
Once you feel low back pain, you don’t want to feel it again. Back pain, though, is not commonly a one and done condition, yet life marches forward and takes you with it. Pain lessens. You start moving and doing what you did before. Your activities of daily life get done. Sometimes, it takes a bit longer to get back to the activities and/or the way you do the activities. Back belts may help with these lingering issues of Largo back pain.
BACK BELTS FOR WORKERS WHO LIFT, BEND, TWIST
A study of material handlers with back pain compared 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 reduced lumbar spine range of motion equally in low back pain patients as in healthy volunteers performing 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 prevent disability or sustain the motion of these activities after a low back pain episode. (1) Hollstrom & Associates Inc 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) 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 daily life activities of patients with low back pain and of healthy office workers. (2) Hollstrom & Associates Inc favors the use of tools that keep our Largo back pain patients active and mobile and confident in their ability to be active and moving. We work with our patients to design a Largo chiropractic treatment plan that may or may not include a back brace and observe its use so that it remains a helpful tool and not a hindrance to recovery.
USING A BACK BELT
We do not want you to fear using a back belt for a time. There is some controversy over belt use, but a back belt may also help as shown in these papers. Know that Hollstrom & Associates Inc 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 enjoy.
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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Nate McKee on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson. He describes 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.
Set up your Largo chiropractic appointment soon. Largo chiropractic care understands the desire to not ever feel back pain again. We want our Largo back pain patients to realize that there is hope, there is a way, and there is a return to life and its activities via tools like back belts incorporated into a treatment plan with spinal manipulation, nutrition, exercise, etc.
