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Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka Cautions Back Pain Sufferers About Lifting and Flexion

Controversy. There is oftentimes controversy in medicine. Controversy can also push medicine to clarity. Such is the case of lifting in a flexed position and its impact on your spine. Your Sitka chiropractor cautions Sitka back pain patients to cautiously bend, lift and twist as these start low back pain for lots of us. Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka 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 analyzed several studies about the effect of lumbar spine flexion lifting and its impact on low back pain onset/persistence. Researchers discovered that lumbar spine flexion lifting was not a differentiator for people with and without low back pain. These investigations were not specific as to types of people. They looked at two types of people: those with and those without back pain. (1) Other studies studied specific types of people.

FLEXION LIFTING: INFLUENTIAL FOR WORKERS

Researchers decided that the effect of forward bending on low back pain is determined by on the type of job, gender and other such specific factors of workers. They found that construction workers’ experience of low back pain was not affected by the amount of time they were bending forward. They found that healthcare workers’ experience of low back pain was affected by the angle of forward bending (more than or equal to 30 degrees triggered low back pain while over 60 degree didn’t). (2) Warehouse workers’ experience of low back pain is influenced by their lifting capacity and psychosocial work environment. Researchers texted workers asking about their low back pain, mental stress, and bodily fatigue over the course of 3 weeks and again at one year. They anticipated that an improved design of the work week (work days vs rest days) and a set reasonable maximum lifting threshold per day will assist in preventing low back pain and lessen stress. (3) Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka works to make sure our work environment is stress-less and low-back-pain-reducing for everyone, our staff and our Sitka 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 strains his spine!

Schedule a back-pain-relieving Sitka chiropractic care appointment with Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka. Controversy aside, low back pain due to work environments that demand flexion bending and lifting can be helped at Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka.

Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka helps workers with their low back pain because of forward bending, lifting and twisting. 
 
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