Chiropractic Solutions Cautions Back Pain Sufferers About Lifting and Flexion
Controversy. There’s oftentimes controversy in medicine. Controversy can also push medicine to clarity. Such is the case of flexed lifting and its impact on your spine. Your San Jose chiropractor cautions San Jose back pain patients to cautiously bend, lift and twist as these create low back pain for lots of us. Chiropractic Solutions still does. Recent studies explain more about the effects of flexion and lifting on the spine and its experience of back pain.
FLEXION LIFTING: NO INFLUENCE
A new research study examined several studies about the impact lumbar spine flexion has and its influence on low back pain onset/persistence. Researchers discovered that lumbar spine flexion lifting was not a differentiator for people with and without low back pain. These investigations were not specific as to categories of people. They looked at two kinds of people: those with and those without back pain. (1) Other studies looked at specific kinds of people.
FLEXION LIFTING: INFLUENTIAL FOR WORKERS
Researchers decided that the result of forward bending on low back pain is determined by on the kind of job, gender and other such particular factors of workers. They noticed that construction workers’ experience of low back pain was not influenced by the quantity of time they spent 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 prompted low back pain while over 60 degree did not). (2) Warehouse workers’ experience of low back pain is affected by their lifting capacity and psychosocial work environment. Researchers texted workers asking 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 design of the work week (work days vs rest days) and a set reasonable maximum lifting threshold per day will assist in preventing low back pain and reduce stress. (3) Chiropractic Solutions works to ensure our work environment is stress-less and low-back-pain-reducing for everyone, our staff and our San Jose 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 shares how The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management managed relief of low back pain for a construction worker whose job certainly taxes his spine!
Schedule a back-pain-relieving San Jose chiropractic care appointment with Chiropractic Solutions. Controversy aside, low back pain due to work environments that demand flexion bending and lifting can be well-managed at Chiropractic Solutions.
