Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka Cautions Back Pain Sufferers About Lifting and Flexion
Controversy. There is oftentimes controversy in medicine. Controversy can also move medicine toward clarity. Such is the case of flexed lifting and its effect on your spine. Your Sitka chiropractor cautions Sitka back pain patients to cautiously bend, lift and twist as these initiate low back pain for lots of us. Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka still does. Recent studies describe 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 numerous 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 wasn’t a determining factor for people with and without low back pain. These studies weren’t specific as to types of people. They studied two kinds of people: those with and those without back pain. (1) Other research projects looked at specific kinds of people.
FLEXION LIFTING: INFLUENTIAL FOR WORKERS
Researchers decided that the result of forward bending on low back pain depended on the type of job, gender and other such particular factors of workers. They found that construction workers’ experience of low back pain was not influenced 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 asked workers via text about their low back pain, mental stress, and bodily fatigue over the course of 3 weeks then at one year. They hoped that a better designed 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-diminishing for everyone, our staff and our Sitka chiropractic patients equally!
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Listen to this PODCAST by Dr. Victor Shu on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson. He describes how The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management managed relief of low back pain for a construction worker whose job surely strains his spine!
Schedule a back-pain-relieving Sitka chiropractic care appointment with Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka. Controversy aside, low back pain attributable to work environments that require flexion bending and lifting can be well-managed at Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka.
