St Peters 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 move a heavy package? Reach for the back brace or brace yourself? The “brace yourself” option may be the superior approach! Old Mill Chiropractic proposes back braces for back pain patients who may be helped by their support. We also propose self-controlled activities to St Peters back pain sufferers to protect the spine when its use is required (moving boxes, digging holes, raking, 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 lessening low back pain or injury. 1380 published medical studies were considered. Reviewers found no consistent evidence for back brace use to stop low back pain or occupational back pain in workers. Absenteeism wasn’t decreased with back belt wearing 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 St Peters back pain sufferers, the back belt offers advantages. Non-rigid lumbar support belts are reported to help non-specific low back pain sufferers with their pain and disability. (3) Deciding whether to use a belt or not is where your St Peters back pain specialist at Old Mill Chiropractic comes in to figure out what is optimal for each back pain sufferer. Each St Peters back pain sufferer – office worker, factory worker, family manager, etc. - is distinctive and must be considered individually. Putting a back brace on all workers to try to reduce 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-regulated, pre-activity motion, a voluntary way of increasing spine stiffness to restrict spine displacement before doing a spine-demanding task. It appears to work according to researchers! Abdominal bracing is individually controlled. In a new 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 initiated all abdominal and back muscles. Flexion motion was limited at the majority of lumbar spine levels when abrupt trunk flexion demands are met with abdominal bracing. (2) It’s worth knowing how to do! Old Mill Chiropractic is ready to demonstrate you how to do this worthy movement as part of your St Peters chiropractic treatment plan!
SPINAL MANIPULATION WORKS FOR BACK PAIN
Old Mill Chiropractic presents a comprehensive chiropractic treatment plan for those occasions when the back pain just won’t stop. When work duties or chores leave 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 get 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 value 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 enable her to shovel snow!
Schedule your St Peters chiropractic appointment soon. We help our St Peters workers and weekend warriors avert and recover from spine pain.
