Daily laborer or weekend warrior…how to do prepare
for spine-demanding tasks? What do you do when you have to relocate a heavy package? Get the back brace or brace yourself? The “brace yourself” option
may be the superior approach! Minster Chiropractic Center proposes
back braces for back pain patients who may be helped by
their support. We also suggest self-controlled activities
to Minster back pain sufferers to protect the spine
when its use is demanded (moving boxes, digging
holes, vacuuming, etc.)
BACK BRACES FOR BACK PAIN PREVENTION:
Not All It Seems
Asymptomatic workers were told to wear back belts at work with the aim of lessening
low back pain or injury. 1380 published medical studies were considered.
Reviewers uncovered no consistent evidence for back belt
use to prevent low back pain or occupational back pain in
workers. Absenteeism was not decreased with back
belt use either. (1) Mind you, this review was of back
brace wearing by asymptomatic workers. In this circumstance,
the back belt is not for everyone. Now for Minster back pain sufferers, the back belt has
advantages. Non-rigid lumbar support belts are reported to help
non-specific low back pain sufferers with their pain and disability. (3)
Deciding whether to use a belt or not is where
your Minster back pain specialist at Minster Chiropractic Center comes in to figure
out what is best for each back pain sufferer. Each Minster
back pain sufferer – office worker, factory worker, family manager, etc. - is unique
and must be considered individually. Putting a back brace on all workers in an effort to decrease back pain for a few doesn’t
work as this paper demonstrates that a back brace may benefit some but not all.
ABDOMINAL BRACING MAY WORK BETTER
Abdominal bracing is a self-controlled,
pre-activity motion, a deliberate way of increasing
spine stiffness to constrain spine displacement ahead of a spine-demanding task. It seems to
work according to researchers! Abdominal bracing is individually
controlled. In a new study, abdominal bracing significantly reduced
sagittal plane motion from the lower thoracic spine (T12) through
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! Minster Chiropractic Center is eager to show
you how to do this worthy move as part of your Minster
chiropractic treatment plan!
SPINAL MANIPULATION WORKS FOR BACK
PAIN
Minster Chiropractic Center uses
a comprehensive chiropractic treatment plan for those occasions
when the back pain just will not stop. 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 get
you back to life.
CONTACT Minster Chiropractic Center
Listen to this PODCAST
with Dr. Jenna Kloor on The
Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as she describes the importance
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 be able to
shovel snow!
Schedule your Minster chiropractic
visit soon. We help our Minster workers and
weekend warriors avert and recuperate from spine
pain.