Oxford Back Pain Recovery and Movement Helped with Back Belts
Once you feel low back pain, you do not want to experience it again. Back pain, though, is not commonly a one and done condition, yet life goes on and carries you with it. Pain diminishes. You start moving and performing what you did before. 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 help with these residual issues of Oxford back pain.
BACK BELTS FOR WORKERS WHO LIFT, BEND, TWIST
A study of material handlers with back pain compared the use of extensible, non-extensible, and no belts in back pain patients and healthy control volunteers. The researchers evaluated 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 allow for a steady return to physical work activities to avert disability or retain 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) enhanced sit-to-stand movement. For the back pain patients, belt use reduced 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) Satterwhite Chiropractic favors the use of tools that keep our Oxford back pain patients active and mobile 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 brace and watch its use so that it remains a beneficial tool and not a hindrance 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 described in these studies. Know that Satterwhite Chiropractic 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 discusses his use of the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management for treating spinal stenosis and associated balance issues for which one test is the sit-to-stand test described in these studies.
Schedule your Oxford chiropractic appointment soon. Oxford chiropractic care understands the desire to not ever feel back pain again. We want our Oxford 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 incorporated into a treatment plan with spinal manipulation, nutrition, exercise, etc.
