St Peters Back Pain Recovery and Movement Helped with Back Belts
Once you feel low back pain, you don’t want to experience it again. Back pain, though, is not typically a one and done condition, yet life marches forward and takes you with it. Pain diminishes. You begin moving and doing what you did before. Your activities of daily life get done. Sometimes, it takes a little longer to return to the activities and/or the way you do the activities. Back belts may come in handy with these residual issues of St Peters back pain.
BACK BELTS FOR WORKERS WHO LIFT, BEND, TWIST
One 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 the same in low back pain patients and 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 allow for a steady return to physical work activities to prevent disability or maintain the motion of these activities after a low back pain episode. (1) Old Mill Chiropractic 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 wore either type of belt and those who were healthy office workers) benefitted sit-to-stand movement. For the back pain patients, belt use decreased pain intensity, pain-related anxiety, and pain catastrophizing. The researchers proposed that either type of belt may be helpful in daily life activities of patients with low back pain and of healthy office workers. (2) Old Mill Chiropractic favors the use of tools that keep our St Peters back pain patients active and mobile and confident in their ability to be active and moving. We work with our patients to design a St Peters chiropractic treatment plan that may or may not incorporate a back belt and monitor its use so that it remains a beneficial tool and not a deterrent to healing.
USING A BACK BELT
We do not 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 Old Mill Chiropractic 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 describes his use of the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management for treating spinal stenosis and related balance issues for which one test is the sit-to-stand test discussed in these studies.
Make your St Peters chiropractic appointment soon. St Peters chiropractic care understands the wanting to not ever feel back pain again. We want our St Peters back pain patients to know that there is hope, there is help, and there is a return to life and its activities with tools like back belts incorporated into a treatment plan alongside spinal manipulation, nutrition, exercise, etc.
