Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office Cautions Back Pain Sufferers About Lifting and Flexion
Controversy. There’s always controversy in medicine. Controversy can also move medicine toward clarity. Such is the case of flexed lifting and its effect on your spine. Your Groton chiropractor cautions Groton back pain patients to cautiously bend, lift and twist as these spur low back pain for lots of us. Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office still does. Recent studies describe 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 a number of studies about the impact lumbar spine flexion has and its impact on low back pain onset/persistence. Researchers discovered that lumbar spine flexion lifting wasn’t a differentiator for people with and without low back pain. These studies weren’t specific as to categories of people. They studied two kinds of people: those with and those without back pain. (1) Other studies looked at specific kinds of people.
FLEXION LIFTING: INFLUENTIAL FOR WORKERS
Researchers concluded that the effect of forward bending on low back pain depended on the type of job, gender and other such particular factors of workers. They found that construction workers’ experience of low back pain wasn’t affected 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 influenced by their lifting capacity and psychosocial work environment. Researchers texted workers asking about their low back pain, mental stress, and bodily fatigue over the course of 3 weeks then at one year. They hoped that a better designed work week (work days vs rest days) and a set reasonable maximum lifting threshold per day will help prevent low back pain and lessen stress. (3) Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office works to ensure our work environment is stress-less and low-back-pain-diminishing for everyone, our staff and our Groton 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 describes how The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management attained relief for a construction worker with low back pain whose job certainly strains his spine!
Schedule a back-pain-relieving Groton chiropractic care appointment with Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office. Controversy aside, low back pain attributable to work environments that require flexion bending and lifting can be well-managed at Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office.
