Once you feel
low back pain, you do not want to feel it again.
Back pain, though, is not typically a one and done condition,
yet life marches forward and carries you with it. Pain
lessens. You get moving and doing
what you did before. Your
activities of daily life get finished. 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 residual issues of Vancouver 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 healthy and in back pain
patients. The researchers
checked 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 as
in healthy volunteers doing 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 slow
return to physical work activities to prevent disability or retain
the motion of these activities after a low back pain event. (1) Vancouver Disc Centers 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 suggested
that either type of belt may be helpful in daily life activities of patients with low back pain and of healthy
office workers. (2) Vancouver Disc Centers backs the use of tools that
keep our Vancouver back pain patients active and moving
and confident in their ability to be active and moving. We work with
our patients to design a Vancouver chiropractic treatment plan that may or may not incorporate
a back brace and monitor its use so that it
remains a helpful tool and not a deterrent 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 shown
in these studies. Know that Vancouver Disc Centers 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 enjoy.
CONTACT
Vancouver Disc Centers
Listen to
this PODCAST
with Dr. Nate McKee on The Back
Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson. He describes 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 discussed in these papers.
Set
up your Vancouver chiropractic appointment
today. Vancouver chiropractic care understands
the desire to not ever feel back pain again. We want our
Vancouver 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 with
spinal manipulation, nutrition, exercise, etc.