Once you feel
low back pain, you don’t want to experience it again.
Back pain, though, is not commonly a one and done condition,
yet life marches forward and takes you with it. Pain
diminishes. You start moving and doing
what you did prior. Your
activities of daily life get done. On occasions,
it takes a little longer to return to the activities
and/or the way you do the activities. Back belts may help
with these lingering issues of Toronto back pain.
BACK BELTS
FOR WORKERS WHO LIFT, BEND, TWIST
One
study of material handlers with back pain assessed the use of
extensible, non-extensible, and no belts in back pain patients and healthy control volunteers. 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 performing 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 gradual
return to physical work activities to avert disability or retain
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 wore 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 proposed
that either type of belt may be beneficial in activities of
daily living 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 incorporate
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 brace for a time. 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.
CONTACT
Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre
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 studies.
Set
up your Toronto chiropractic appointment
now. Toronto chiropractic care understands
the wanting 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 with
tools like back belts incorporated into a treatment plan alongside
spinal manipulation, nutrition, exercise, etc.