Toronto Back Pain Recovery and Movement Helped with Back Belts

January 21, 2022

Once you feel low back pain, you don’t want to feel it again. Back pain, though, is not commonly a one and done condition, yet life marches forward and carries you with it. Pain lessens. You start moving and performing what you did before.  Your activities of daily life get finished. Sometimes, it takes a little longer to get back to the activities and/or the way you do the activities. Back belts may help with these residual issues of Toronto 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 evaluated for two outcomes: pain-related and biomechanical. As far as biomechanical outcomes go, both the belt types reduced 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 great outcome!) Belts may permit for a steady return to physical work activities to prevent disability or maintain the motion of these activities after a low back pain episode. (1) Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre 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 three 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 daily life activities of patients with low back pain and of healthy office workers. (2) Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre favors the use of tools that keep our Toronto back pain patients active and moving and confident in their ability to be active and moving. We work with our patients to design a Toronto chiropractic treatment plan that may or may not involve a back brace and watch 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 Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre 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 enjoy.

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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 related balance issues for which one test is the sit-to-stand test discussed in these papers.

Make your Toronto chiropractic appointment today. Toronto chiropractic care understands the desire to not ever feel back pain again. We want our Toronto back pain patients to realize 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 alongside spinal manipulation, nutrition, exercise, etc. 

Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre offers backing for the benefit of back belts for back pain sufferers as they resume activities of daily living.