San Jose Chiropractic Incorporates Abdominal Bracing and Back Brace Wearing for Patients to Protect Their Spines
Daily laborer or weekend warrior…how to do get ready for spine-demanding chores? What do you do when you have to move a weighty package? Get the back brace or brace yourself? The “brace yourself” alternative may be the better approach! Chiropractic Solutions proposes back braces for back pain patients who may benefit from their support. We also suggest self-controlled activities to San Jose back pain sufferers to safeguard the spine when its use is required (hefting 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 intention of decreasing low back pain or injury. 1380 published medical studies were considered. Reviewers uncovered no consistent evidence for back brace use to stop 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 wearing by asymptomatic workers. In this circumstance, the back belt is not for everyone. Now for San Jose back pain sufferers, the back belt has benefits. 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 San Jose back pain specialist at Chiropractic Solutions comes in to figure out what is best for each back pain sufferer. Each San Jose 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 decrease back pain for a few doesn’t work as this paper shows that a back brace may work for some but not all.
ABDOMINAL BRACING MAY WORK BETTER
Abdominal bracing is a self-controlled, pre-activity motion, a deliberate way of enhancing spine stiffness to restrict spine displacement ahead of a spine-demanding task. It appears to work according to researchers! Abdominal bracing is individually controlled. In a recent study, abdominal bracing significantly decreased 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 activated all abdominal and back muscles. Flexion motion was limited at the majority of lumbar spine levels when sudden trunk flexion demands are encountered with abdominal bracing. (2) It’s worth knowing how to do! Chiropractic Solutions is ready to show you how to do this worthy movement as part of your San Jose chiropractic treatment plan!
SPINAL MANIPULATION WORKS FOR BACK PAIN
Chiropractic Solutions uses a comprehensive chiropractic treatment plan for those occasions when the back pain just won’t stop. When work duties or chores result in 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.
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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 significance of helping a patient be able to do something like walking to help herself as she recuperated from her back pain episode with The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management and even enable her to shovel snow!
Schedule your San Jose chiropractic visit soon. We help our San Jose workers and weekend warriors avert and recuperate from spine pain.
