Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC Cautions Back Pain Sufferers About Lifting and Flexion
Controversy. There’s 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 La Grande chiropractor cautions La Grande back pain patients to carefully bend, lift and twist as these initiate low back pain for lots of us. Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC still does. New studies explain 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 numerous studies about the effect of lumbar spine flexion lifting and its influence on low back pain onset/persistence. Researchers discovered 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 types of people. They looked at two types of people: those with and those without back pain. (1) Other research projects looked at specific types of people.
FLEXION LIFTING: INFLUENTIAL FOR WORKERS
Researchers decided that the effect of forward bending on low back pain is determined by on the kind of job, gender and other such specific factors of workers. They noticed that construction workers’ experience of low back pain was not influenced by the quantity 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 affected 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 and again at one year. They hoped that a better design of the work week (work days vs rest days) and a set reasonable maximum lifting threshold per day will assist in preventing low back pain and reduce stress. (3) Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC works to ensure our work environment is stress-less and low-back-pain-diminishing for everyone, our staff and our La Grande chiropractic patients alike!
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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 attained relief of low back pain for a construction worker whose job certainly taxes his spine!
Schedule a back-pain-relieving La Grande chiropractic care appointment with Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC. Controversy aside, low back pain due to work environments that demand flexion bending and lifting can be helped at Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC.
