Sitka Chiropractic Incorporates Abdominal Bracing and Back Brace Wearing for Patients to Protect Their Spines
Daily laborer or weekend warrior…how to do prepare for spine-demanding tasks? What do you do when you have to move a heavy package? Get the back brace or brace yourself? The “brace yourself” option may be the better approach! Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka recommends back braces for back pain patients who may be helped by their support. We also propose self-controlled actions to Sitka back pain sufferers to safeguard the spine when its use is demanded (moving boxes, digging holes, raking, etc.)
BACK BRACES FOR BACK PAIN PREVENTION: Not All It Seems
Asymptomatic workers were directed to wear back belts at work with the aim of decreasing low back pain or injury. 1380 published medical studies were considered. Reviewers found no consistent evidence for back brace use to avoid low back pain or occupational back pain in workers. Absenteeism wasn’t decreased with back belt utilization either. (1) Mind you, this review was of back brace use by asymptomatic workers. In this situation, the back belt is not for everyone. Now for Sitka back pain sufferers, the back belt offers advantages. Non-rigid lumbar support belts are reported to help non-specific low back pain sufferers with their pain and disability. (3) The decision of belt use is where your Sitka back pain specialist at Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka comes in to figure out what is optimal for each back pain sufferer. Each Sitka back pain sufferer – office worker, factory worker, family manager, etc. - is distinctive and must be considered individually. Having all workers wear a back brace in an attempt to reduce back pain for a few doesn’t work as this paper demonstrates that a back brace may work for some but not all.
ABDOMINAL BRACING MAY WORK BETTER
Abdominal bracing is a self-monitored, pre-activity motion, a deliberate way of increasing spine stiffness to restrict spine displacement before doing a spine-demanding task. It seems to work according to researchers! Abdominal bracing is personally controlled. In a new study, abdominal bracing significantly reduced sagittal plane motion from the lower thoracic spine (T12) throughout the lower lumbar spine (L4L5): by 45% at L4L5, by 94% at L1L2, and 50% at L5S1. Such self-bracing stimulated all abdominal and back muscles. Flexion motion was limited at most of lumbar spine levels when challenging trunk flexion demands are met with abdominal bracing. (2) It is worth knowing how to do! Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka is ready to demonstrate you how to do this worthy movement as part of your Sitka chiropractic treatment plan!
SPINAL MANIPULATION WORKS FOR BACK PAIN
Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka presents a comprehensive chiropractic treatment plan for those times when the back pain just won’t go away. When work duties or chores leave your spine - cervical, thoracic or lumbar - hurting, The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management combines gentle, relieving spinal manipulation with specific exercise and nutritional advice to return you back to life.
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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Jenna Kloor on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as she describes the value of helping a patient be able to do something like walking to help herself as she recovered from her back pain episode with The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management and even enable her to shovel snow!
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