Dr. Hoang's Chiropractic Clinic Cautions Back Pain Sufferers About Lifting and Flexion

Controversy. There is always controversy in medicine. Controversy can also move medicine toward clarity. Such is the case of lifting in a flexed position and its impact on your spine. Your Montreal chiropractor cautions Montreal back pain patients to carefully bend, lift and twist as these initiate low back pain for many. Dr. Hoang's Chiropractic Clinic still does. New studies describe more about the effects of flexion and lifting on the spine and its experience of back pain.

FLEXION LIFTING: NO INFLUENCE

The latest research study analyzed several studies about the effect of lumbar spine flexion lifting 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 studies were not specific as to types of people. They looked at two kinds of people: those with and those without back pain. (1) Other studies studied specific types of people.

FLEXION LIFTING: INFLUENTIAL FOR WORKERS

Researchers decided that the effect of forward bending on low back pain depended on the type of job, gender and other such particular factors of workers. They noticed that construction workers’ experience of low back pain wasn’t influenced by the amount of time they were 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 influenced 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 designed 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) Dr. Hoang's Chiropractic Clinic works to ensure our work environment is stress-less and low-back-pain-diminishing for everyone, our staff and our Montreal chiropractic patients alike!

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Listen to this PODCAST by Dr. Victor Shu on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson. He describes how The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management attained relief of low back pain for a construction worker whose job certainly strains his spine!

Schedule a back-pain-relieving Montreal chiropractic care appointment with Dr. Hoang's Chiropractic Clinic. Controversy aside, low back pain attributable to work environments that demand flexion bending and lifting can be helped at Dr. Hoang's Chiropractic Clinic.