La Grande Chiropractic Incorporates Abdominal Bracing and Back Brace Wearing for Patients to Protect Their Spines
Daily laborer or weekend warrior…how to do get ready for spine-demanding tasks? What do you do when you have to move a heavy package? Reach for the back brace or brace yourself? The “brace yourself” option may be the superior approach! Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC proposes back braces for back pain patients who may benefit from their support. We also propose self-controlled activities to La Grande back pain sufferers to safeguard the spine when its use is required (moving boxes, digging holes, vacuuming, etc.)
BACK BRACES FOR BACK PAIN PREVENTION: Not All It Seems
Asymptomatic workers were directed to wear back belts at work with the intention of lessening low back pain or injury. 1380 published medical studies were reviewed. Reviewers uncovered no consistent evidence for back brace use to prevent low back pain or occupational back pain in workers. Absenteeism was not reduced with back belt wearing either. (1) Mind you, this review was of back brace wearing by asymptomatic workers. In this circumstance, the back belt is not for everyone. Now for La Grande back pain sufferers, the back belt has benefits. Non-rigid lumbar support belts are reported to help non-specific low back pain sufferers with their pain and disability. (3) The decision of belt use is where your La Grande back pain specialist at Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC comes in to figure out what is optimal for each back pain sufferer. Each La Grande back pain sufferer – office worker, factory worker, family manager, etc. - is distinctive and must be considered individually. Putting a back brace on all workers in an effort to reduce back pain for a few doesn’t work as this paper shows that a back brace may benefit some but not all.
ABDOMINAL BRACING MAY WORK BETTER
Abdominal bracing is a self-controlled, pre-activity motion, a deliberate way of enhancing spine stiffness to limit spine displacement before doing a spine-demanding task. It appears to work according to researchers! Abdominal bracing is individually controlled. In a recent study, abdominal bracing significantly reduced sagittal plane motion from the lower thoracic spine (T12) through the lower lumbar spine (L4L5): by 45% at L4L5, by 94% at L1L2, and 50% at L5S1. Such self-bracing activated all abdominal and back muscles. Flexion motion was restricted at the majority of lumbar spine levels when challenging trunk flexion demands are met with abdominal bracing. (2) It is worth knowing how to do! Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC is ready to show you how to do this worthy movement as part of your La Grande chiropractic treatment plan!
SPINAL MANIPULATION WORKS FOR BACK PAIN
Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC uses a comprehensive chiropractic treatment plan for those times when the back pain just won’t go away. When work duties or chores result in your spine - cervical, thoracic or lumbar - hurting, The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management mixes gentle, relieving spinal manipulation with specific exercise and nutritional advice to return you back to life.
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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Jenna Kloor on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as she describes the significance of helping a patient be able to do something like walking to help herself as she recuperated from her back pain episode with The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management and even enable her to shovel snow!
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