West Des Moines Back Pain Recovery and Movement Helped with Back Belts
Once you experience low back pain, you don’t 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 diminishes. You start moving and doing what you did before. Your activities of daily life get finished. On occasions, it takes a bit longer to get back to the activities and/or the way you do the activities. Back belts may help with these lingering issues of West Des Moines back pain.
BACK BELTS FOR WORKERS WHO LIFT, BEND, TWIST
One 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 reduced lumbar spine range of motion equally in low back pain patients and in healthy volunteers doing small and deep trunk flexion motions. (Yay!) Both belts also reduced pain, the fear of pain, and the catastrophizing of pain in the back pain patients. (Another great outcome!) Belts may permit for a slow return to physical work activities to prevent disability or retain the motion of these activities after a low back pain episode. (1) Executive Chiropractic of Iowa 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) 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) Executive Chiropractic of Iowa backs the use of tools that keep our West Des Moines back pain patients active and mobile and confident in their ability to be active and mobile. We work with our patients to create a West Des Moines chiropractic treatment plan that may or may not include a back belt and watch its use so that it remains a helpful tool and not a hindrance to recovery.
USING A BACK BELT
We don’t want you to fear using a back brace for a while. There is some controversy over belt use, but a back belt may also help as shown in these studies. Know that Executive Chiropractic of Iowa 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 like.
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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 associated balance issues for which one test is the sit-to-stand test described in these studies.
Schedule your West Des Moines chiropractic appointment now. West Des Moines chiropractic care gets the wanting to not ever feel back pain again. We want our West Des Moines back pain patients to know that there is hope, there is a way, and there is a return to life and its activities with tools like back belts integrated into a treatment plan alongside spinal manipulation, nutrition, exercise, etc.
