Old Mill Chiropractic Cautions Back Pain Sufferers About Lifting and Flexion
Controversy. There is oftentimes controversy in medicine. Controversy can also move medicine to clarity. Such is the case of flexed lifting and its effect on your spine. Your St Peters chiropractor cautions St Peters back pain patients to carefully bend, lift and twist as these start low back pain for lots of us. Old Mill Chiropractic still does. New studies describe more about the effects of flexion and lifting on the spine and its experience of back pain.
FLEXION LIFTING: NO INFLUENCE
A new research study examined a number of studies about the effect of lumbar spine flexion lifting and its impact on low back pain onset/persistence. Researchers found that lumbar spine flexion lifting was not a determining factor for people with and without low back pain. These studies were not specific as to categories of people. They studied two types of people: those with and those without back pain. (1) Other studies looked at specific kinds of people.
FLEXION LIFTING: INFLUENTIAL FOR WORKERS
Researchers decided that the result of forward bending on low back pain depended on the type of job, gender and other such particular factors of workers. They found that construction workers’ experience of low back pain was not influenced by the amount of time they were bending forward. They found that healthcare workers’ experience of low back pain was altered by the angle of forward bending (more than or equal to 30 degrees triggered 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 asked workers via text about their low back pain, mental stress, and bodily fatigue over the course of 3 weeks then at one year. They hoped that an improved design of the work week (work days vs rest days) and a set reasonable maximum lifting threshold per day will help prevent low back pain and lessen stress. (3) Old Mill Chiropractic works to make sure our work environment is stress-less and low-back-pain-diminishing for everyone, our staff and our St Peters chiropractic patients equally!
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Listen to this PODCAST by Dr. Victor Shu on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson. He shares how The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management managed relief of low back pain for a construction worker whose job certainly taxes his spine!
Schedule a back-pain-relieving St Peters chiropractic care appointment with Old Mill Chiropractic. Controversy aside, low back pain due to work environments that demand flexion bending and lifting can be helped at Old Mill Chiropractic.
