Satterwhite Chiropractic Cautions Back Pain Sufferers About Lifting and Flexion
Controversy. There is always controversy in medicine. Controversy can also move medicine to clarity. Such is the case of lifting in a flexed position and its effect on your spine. Your Oxford chiropractor cautions Oxford back pain patients to carefully bend, lift and twist as these spur low back pain for lots of us. Satterwhite Chiropractic still does. Recent studies explain 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 a number of studies about the impact lumbar spine flexion has and its influence on low back pain onset/persistence. Researchers found that lumbar spine flexion lifting wasn’t 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 research projects looked at specific types of people.
FLEXION LIFTING: INFLUENTIAL FOR WORKERS
Researchers concluded that the result of forward bending on low back pain is determined by on the kind of job, gender and other such specific factors of workers. They found that construction workers’ experience of low back pain was not affected by the quantity of time they spent bending forward. They discovered 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 didn’t). (2) Warehouse workers’ experience of low back pain is influenced by their lifting capacity and psychosocial work environment. Researchers questioned workers via text about their low back pain, mental stress, and bodily fatigue over the course of 3 weeks then at one year. They anticipated that an improved design of the 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) Satterwhite Chiropractic works to ensure our work environment is stress-less and low-back-pain-diminishing for everyone, our staff and our Oxford 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 managed relief of low back pain for a construction worker whose job surely taxes his spine!
Schedule a back-pain-relieving Oxford chiropractic care appointment with Satterwhite Chiropractic. Controversy aside, low back pain attributable to work environments that require flexion bending and lifting can be helped at Satterwhite Chiropractic.
