Groton 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 must relocate a heavy package? Get the back brace or brace yourself? The “brace yourself” alternative may be the better approach! Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office recommends back braces for back pain patients who may be helped by their support. We also suggest self-controlled activities to Groton back pain sufferers to safeguard the spine when its use is required (hefting 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 aim of lessening low back pain or injury. 1380 published medical studies were considered. Reviewers found no consistent evidence for back brace use to stop low back pain or occupational back pain in workers. Absenteeism wasn’t 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 Groton back pain sufferers, the back belt offers advantages. 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 Groton back pain specialist at Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office comes in to determine what is optimal for each back pain sufferer. Each Groton back pain sufferer – office worker, factory worker, family manager, etc. - is distinctive and must be addressed individually. Putting a back brace on all workers in an attempt to reduce 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 constrain spine displacement before doing a spine-demanding task. It seems to work according to researchers! Abdominal bracing is personally controlled. In a recent study, abdominal bracing significantly decreased sagittal plane motion from the lower thoracic spine (T12) throughout 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 most of lumbar spine levels when challenging trunk flexion demands are encountered with abdominal bracing. (2) It is worth knowing how to do! Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office is ready to demonstrate you how to do this worthy move as part of your Groton chiropractic treatment plan!
SPINAL MANIPULATION WORKS FOR BACK PAIN
Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office uses a comprehensive chiropractic treatment plan for those occasions 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 mixes gentle, relieving spinal manipulation with specific exercise and nutritional advice to get 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!
Schedule your Groton chiropractic appointment soon. We help our Groton workers and weekend warriors prevent and recuperate from spine pain.
