Montreal Back Pain Recovery and Movement Helped with Back Belts
Once you feel low back pain, you do not want to feel it again. Back pain, though, is not commonly a one and done condition, yet life marches forward and takes you with it. Pain diminishes. You start moving and doing what you did prior. Your activities of daily life get finished. Sometimes, it takes a bit longer to get back to the activities and/or the way you do the activities. Back belts may help with these lingering issues of Montreal back pain.
BACK BELTS FOR WORKERS WHO LIFT, BEND, TWIST
One 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 the same in low back pain patients as 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 permit for a steady return to physical work activities to prevent disability or sustain the motion of these activities after a low back pain event. (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 reduced 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) 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 moving. We work with our patients to design a Montreal chiropractic treatment plan that may or may not involve a back belt and watch its use so that it remains a helpful tool and not a deterrent to healing.
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.
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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 managing spinal stenosis and related balance issues for which one test is the sit-to-stand test discussed in these studies.
Schedule your Montreal chiropractic appointment today. Montreal chiropractic care gets the desire to not ever feel back pain again. We want our Montreal back pain patients to realize that there is hope, there is a way, and there is a return to life and its activities via tools like back belts integrated into a treatment plan alongside spinal manipulation, nutrition, exercise, etc.
