Once you experience
low back pain, you don’t want to feel it again.
Back pain, though, is not commonly a one and done condition,
yet life goes on and takes you with it. Pain
diminishes. You begin moving and performing
what you did prior. Your
activities of daily life get done. Sometimes,
it takes a bit longer to get back to the activities
and/or the way you do the activities. Back belts may come in handy
with these lingering issues of Montreal 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 decreased
lumbar spine range of motion equally in low back pain patients and
in healthy volunteers doing 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 permit for a steady
return to physical work activities to avert disability or maintain
the motion of these activities after a low back pain episode. (1) Dr. Hoang's 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 used either type of belt and those
who were healthy office workers) enhanced sit-to-stand
movement. For the back pain patients, belt use decreased pain
intensity, pain-related anxiety, and pain catastrophizing. The researchers proposed
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) Dr. Hoang's Chiropractic Clinic backs the use of tools that
keep our Montreal back pain patients active and mobile
and confident in their ability to be active and mobile. We work with
our patients to create a Montreal chiropractic treatment plan that may or may not involve
a back brace and watch its use so that it
remains a helpful tool and not a deterrent to recovery.
USING A BACK
BELT
We do not
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 studies. Know that Dr. Hoang's Chiropractic Clinic 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 like.
CONTACT
Dr. Hoang's Chiropractic Clinic
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 discussed in these studies.
Make your Montreal chiropractic appointment
now. Montreal chiropractic care understands
the wanting to not ever feel back pain again. We want our
Montreal back pain patients to realize 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.