Once you feel
low back pain, you do not want to experience it again.
Back pain, though, is not typically a one and done condition,
yet life marches forward and carries you with it. Pain
lessens. You start moving and performing
what you did prior. 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 come in handy
with these lingering issues of San Jose back pain.
BACK BELTS
FOR WORKERS WHO LIFT, BEND, TWIST
One
study of material handlers with back pain assessed 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 and
in healthy volunteers doing small and deep trunk flexion
motions. (Yay!) Both belts also decreased pain, the fear of pain,
and the catastrophizing of pain in the back pain patients. (Another great
outcome!) Belts may permit for a steady
return to physical work activities to avert disability or sustain
the motion of these activities after a low back pain episode. (1) Chiropractic Solutions 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 the
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 proposed
that either type of belt may be helpful in activities of
daily living of patients with low back pain and of healthy
office workers. (2) Chiropractic Solutions favors the use of tools that
keep our San Jose back pain patients active and mobile
and confident in their ability to be active and moving. We work with
our patients to design a San Jose chiropractic treatment plan that may or may not incorporate
a back brace and observe its use so that it
remains a helpful tool and not a deterrent to healing.
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 described
in these studies. Know that Chiropractic Solutions will work with you and
your specific condition as to whether back belt use may be beneficial.
All of us just want pain relief and a return to activities that you like.
CONTACT
Chiropractic Solutions
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 managing
spinal stenosis and associated balance issues for which one test
is the sit-to-stand test described in these papers.
Make your San Jose chiropractic appointment
today. San Jose chiropractic care understands
the desire to not ever feel back pain again. We want our
San Jose 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 incorporated into a treatment plan alongside
spinal manipulation, nutrition, exercise, etc.