Oxford Back Pain Recovery and Movement Helped with Back Belts

Once you feel low back pain, you don’t want to feel it again. Back pain, though, is not typically a one and done condition, yet life marches forward and takes you with it. Pain diminishes. You get moving and performing what you did before.  Your activities of daily life get done. Sometimes, 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 lingering issues of Oxford 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 decreased lumbar spine range of motion equally in low back pain patients and in healthy volunteers performing small and deep trunk flexion motions. (Yay!) Both belts also reduced 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 maintain the motion of these activities after a low back pain episode. (1) Satterwhite Chiropractic 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 performed. Biomechanically, belt use in all the groups (those with back pain who used 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 proposed that either type of belt may be helpful in daily life activities of patients with low back pain and of healthy office workers. (2) Satterwhite Chiropractic backs the use of tools that keep our Oxford back pain patients active and moving and confident in their ability to be active and moving. We work with our patients to design a Oxford chiropractic treatment plan that may or may not include a back belt and watch its use so that it remains a beneficial tool and not a deterrent to healing.

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 shown in these papers. Know that Satterwhite Chiropractic 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 like.

CONTACT Satterwhite Chiropractic

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 managing spinal stenosis and associated balance issues for which one test is the sit-to-stand test described in these studies.

Make your Oxford chiropractic appointment today. Oxford chiropractic care understands the wanting to not ever feel back pain again. We want our Oxford 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 alongside spinal manipulation, nutrition, exercise, etc. 

Satterwhite Chiropractic offers backing for the benefit of back belts for back pain sufferers as they resume activities of daily living. 
 
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