Augusta 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 relocate a weighty package? Get the back brace or brace yourself? The “brace yourself” option may be the better approach! Lombardy Chiropractic Clinic recommends back braces for back pain patients who may be helped by their support. We also suggest self-controlled activities to Augusta back pain sufferers to safeguard the spine when its use is required (hefting boxes, digging holes, raking, etc.)
BACK BRACES FOR BACK PAIN PREVENTION: Not All It Seems
Asymptomatic workers were directed to wear back belts at work with the aim of decreasing low back pain or injury. 1380 published medical studies were reviewed. Reviewers uncovered no consistent evidence for back belt use to prevent low back pain or occupational back pain in workers. Absenteeism was not reduced with back belt utilization either. (1) Mind you, this review was of back brace wearing by asymptomatic workers. In this situation, the back belt is not for everyone. Now for Augusta 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 Augusta back pain specialist at Lombardy Chiropractic Clinic comes in to figure out what is best for each back pain sufferer. Each Augusta back pain sufferer – office worker, factory worker, family manager, etc. - is unique and must be addressed individually. Putting a back brace on all workers in an effort to decrease back pain for a few does not work as this paper demonstrates that a back brace may work for some but not all.
ABDOMINAL BRACING MAY WORK BETTER
Abdominal bracing is a self-monitored, pre-activity motion, a voluntary way of increasing spine stiffness to limit spine displacement ahead of a spine-demanding job. It seems to work according to researchers! Abdominal bracing is individually controlled. In a new 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 stimulated all abdominal and back muscles. Flexion motion was limited at most of lumbar spine levels when sudden trunk flexion demands are met with abdominal bracing. (2) It is worth knowing how to do! Lombardy Chiropractic Clinic is ready to show you how to do this worthy move as part of your Augusta chiropractic treatment plan!
SPINAL MANIPULATION WORKS FOR BACK PAIN
Lombardy Chiropractic Clinic presents a comprehensive chiropractic treatment plan for those times when the back pain just will not go away. When work duties or chores leave your spine - cervical, thoracic or lumbar - hurting, The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management combines 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 value of helping a patient be able to do something like walking to help herself as she recovered from her back pain episode with The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management and even be able to shovel snow!
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