Sitka 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 diminishes. You start moving and performing what you did before. Your activities of daily life get done. On occasions, it takes a little longer to get back to the activities and/or the way you do the activities. Back belts may help with these residual issues of Sitka 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 evaluated for two outcomes: pain-related and biomechanical. As far as biomechanical outcomes go, both the belt types decreased lumbar spine range of motion the same in low back pain patients as in healthy volunteers doing 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 benefit!) Belts may allow for a gradual return to physical work activities to prevent disability or sustain the motion of these activities after a low back pain episode. (1) Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka 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) enhanced 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) Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka favors the use of tools that keep our Sitka back pain patients active and mobile and confident in their ability to be active and moving. We work with our patients to design a Sitka chiropractic treatment plan that may or may not incorporate a back belt and observe its use so that it remains a beneficial tool and not a deterrent to healing.
USING A BACK BELT
We don’t want you to fear using a back brace for a while. There is some controversy over belt use, but a back belt may also help as shown in these studies. Know that Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka 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.
CONTACT Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka
Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Nate McKee on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson. He discusses 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.
Set up your Sitka chiropractic appointment today. Sitka chiropractic care understands the wanting to not ever feel back pain again. We want our Sitka back pain patients to realize that there is hope, there is a way, and there is a return to life and its activities with tools like back belts incorporated into a treatment plan with spinal manipulation, nutrition, exercise, etc.
