La Grande Back Pain Recovery and Movement Helped with Back Belts
Once you experience low back pain, you don’t want to experience it again. Back pain, though, is not commonly a one and done condition, yet life goes on and takes you with it. Pain diminishes. You begin moving and doing what you did before. Your activities of daily life get finished. Sometimes, it takes a little longer to return to the activities and/or the way you do the activities. Back belts may come in handy with these lingering issues of La Grande 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 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 the same 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 allow for a steady return to physical work activities to avert disability or sustain the motion of these activities after a low back pain episode. (1) Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC 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 done. 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 beneficial in activities of daily living of patients with low back pain and of healthy office workers. (2) Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC favors the use of tools that keep our La Grande back pain patients active and moving and confident in their ability to be active and mobile. We work with our patients to create a La Grande chiropractic treatment plan that may or may not include a back brace and observe its use so that it remains a helpful tool and not a hindrance to healing.
USING A BACK BELT
We don’t 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 papers. Know that Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC 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.
CONTACT Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC
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 studies.
Schedule your La Grande chiropractic appointment today. La Grande chiropractic care understands the desire to not ever feel back pain again. We want our La Grande 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 with spinal manipulation, nutrition, exercise, etc.
