Once you experience
low back pain, you do not want to feel it again.
Back pain, though, is not typically a one and done condition,
yet life marches forward and carries you with it. Pain
lessens. You begin moving and doing
what you did prior. Your
activities of daily life get finished. On occasions,
it takes a bit longer to return to the activities
and/or the way you do the activities. Back belts may come in handy
with these residual issues of Fort Wayne 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 healthy and in back pain
patients. The researchers
evaluated for two outcomes: pain-related and biomechanical. As
far as biomechanical outcomes go, both the belt types reduced
lumbar spine range of motion the same 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 slow
return to physical work activities to prevent disability or retain
the motion of these activities after a low back pain event. (1) Aaron Chiropractic Clinic 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 done. Biomechanically, belt use in all three
groups (those with back pain who wore either type of belt and those
who were healthy office workers) benefitted sit-to-stand
movement. For the back pain patients, belt use decreased pain
intensity, pain-related anxiety, and pain catastrophizing. The researchers suggested
that either type of belt may be helpful in daily life activities of patients with low back pain and of healthy
office workers. (2) Aaron Chiropractic Clinic favors the use of tools that
keep our Fort Wayne back pain patients active and moving
and confident in their ability to be active and mobile. We work with
our patients to create a Fort Wayne chiropractic treatment plan that may or may not incorporate
a back belt and observe its use so that it
remains a beneficial tool and not a deterrent to recovery.
USING A BACK
BELT
We don’t
want you to fear using a back belt for a time. There is
some controversy over belt use, but a back belt may also help as described
in these studies. Know that Aaron Chiropractic Clinic will work with you and
your specific condition as to whether back belt use may be of value.
All of us just want pain relief and a return to activities that you enjoy.
CONTACT
Aaron Chiropractic Clinic
Listen to
this PODCAST
with Dr. Nate McKee on The Back
Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson. He discusses 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 discussed in these papers.
Make your Fort Wayne chiropractic appointment
soon. Fort Wayne chiropractic care gets
the wanting to not ever feel back pain again. We want our
Fort Wayne back pain patients to know that there is hope,
there is help, and there is a return to life and its activities via
tools like back belts incorporated into a treatment plan with
spinal manipulation, nutrition, exercise, etc.