Montreal Chiropractic Incorporates Abdominal Bracing and Back Brace Wearing for Patients to Protect Their Spines
Daily laborer or weekend warrior…how to do prepare for spine-demanding tasks? What do you do when you must relocate a weighty box? Reach for the back brace or brace yourself? The “brace yourself” option may be the superior approach! Dr. Hoang's Chiropractic Clinic proposes back braces for back pain patients who may be helped by their support. We also suggest self-controlled actions to Montreal back pain sufferers to safeguard the spine when its use is demanded (moving boxes, digging holes, vacuuming, etc.)
BACK BRACES FOR BACK PAIN PREVENTION: Not All It Seems
Asymptomatic workers were directed to wear back belts at work with the intention of reducing low back pain or injury. 1380 published medical studies were reviewed. Reviewers uncovered no consistent evidence for back belt use to avoid low back pain or occupational back pain in workers. Absenteeism wasn’t reduced with back belt use either. (1) Mind you, this review was of back brace use by asymptomatic workers. In this situation, the back belt is not for everyone. Now for Montreal back pain sufferers, the back belt has advantages. Non-rigid lumbar support belts are reported to help non-specific low back pain sufferers with their pain and disability. (3) The decision of belt use is where your Montreal back pain specialist at Dr. Hoang's Chiropractic Clinic comes in to figure out what is optimal for each back pain sufferer. Each Montreal back pain sufferer – office worker, factory worker, family manager, etc. - is distinctive and must be addressed individually. Having all workers wear a back brace to try to decrease back pain for a few doesn’t work as this paper demonstrates that a back brace may work for some but not all.
ABDOMINAL BRACING MAY WORK BETTER
Abdominal bracing is a self-controlled, pre-activity motion, a deliberate way of enhancing spine stiffness to limit spine displacement before doing a spine-demanding task. It seems to work according to researchers! Abdominal bracing is personally controlled. In a recent study, abdominal bracing significantly decreased sagittal plane motion from the lower thoracic spine (T12) through the lower lumbar spine (L4L5): by 45% at L4L5, by 94% at L1L2, and 50% at L5S1. Such self-bracing activated all abdominal and back muscles. Flexion motion was restricted at most of lumbar spine levels when sudden trunk flexion demands are encountered with abdominal bracing. (2) It is worth knowing how to do! Dr. Hoang's Chiropractic Clinic is eager to show you how to do this worthy step as part of your Montreal chiropractic treatment plan!
SPINAL MANIPULATION WORKS FOR BACK PAIN
Dr. Hoang's Chiropractic Clinic uses a comprehensive chiropractic treatment plan for those occasions when the back pain just won’t stop. When work duties or chores result in your spine - cervical, thoracic or lumbar - hurting, The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management combines gentle, relieving spinal manipulation with specific exercise and nutritional advice to return you back to life.
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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Jenna Kloor on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as she describes the significance of helping a patient be able to do something like walking to help herself as she recuperated from her back pain episode with The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management and even be able to shovel snow!
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