San Jose Back Pain Recovery and Movement Helped with Back Belts
Once you experience low back pain, you don’t want to experience it again. Back pain, though, is not typically a one and done condition, yet life goes on and carries you with it. Pain lessens. You begin moving and performing what you did prior. Your activities of daily life get done. On occasions, it takes a little longer to return to the activities and/or the way you do the activities. Back belts may come in handy with these lingering issues of San Jose back pain.
BACK BELTS FOR WORKERS WHO LIFT, BEND, TWIST
A study of material handlers with back pain assessed the use of extensible, non-extensible, and no belts in back pain patients and healthy control volunteers. The researchers checked for two outcomes: pain-related and biomechanical. As far as biomechanical outcomes go, both the belt types reduced lumbar spine range of motion equally in low back pain patients and in healthy volunteers performing small and deep trunk flexion motions. (Yay!) Both belts also decreased 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 avert disability or retain the motion of these activities after a low back pain episode. (1) Chiropractic Solutions 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 performed. Biomechanically, belt use in all three groups (those with back pain who used either type of belt and those who were healthy office workers) enhanced sit-to-stand movement. For the back pain patients, belt use reduced pain intensity, pain-related anxiety, and pain catastrophizing. The researchers suggested that either type of belt may be beneficial in activities of daily living of patients with low back pain and of healthy office workers. (2) Chiropractic Solutions backs the use of tools that keep our San Jose back pain patients active and moving and confident in their ability to be active and mobile. We work with our patients to create a San Jose chiropractic treatment plan that may or may not include a back brace 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 belt for a while. There is some controversy over belt use, but a back belt may also help as shown in these papers. Know that Chiropractic Solutions will work with you and your specific condition as to whether back belt use may be beneficial. All of us just want pain relief and a return to activities that you enjoy.
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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Nate McKee on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson. He describes his use of the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management for treating spinal stenosis and related balance issues for which one test is the sit-to-stand test described in these papers.
Schedule your San Jose chiropractic appointment now. San Jose chiropractic care gets the wanting to not ever feel back pain again. We want our San Jose back pain patients to know that there is hope, there is a way, and there is a return to life and its activities via tools like back belts incorporated into a treatment plan alongside spinal manipulation, nutrition, exercise, etc.
