Ashburn and Herndon 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 weighty package? Get the back brace or brace yourself? The “brace yourself” option may be the superior approach! Poulin Chiropractic of Herndon and Ashburn recommends back braces for back pain patients who may be helped by their support. We also suggest self-controlled actions to Ashburn and Herndon back pain sufferers to protect the spine when its use is demanded (moving boxes, digging holes, raking, etc.)
BACK BRACES FOR BACK PAIN PREVENTION: Not All It Seems
Asymptomatic workers were told to wear back belts at work with the intention of reducing low back pain or injury. 1380 published medical studies were considered. Reviewers uncovered no consistent evidence for back belt use to stop 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 Ashburn and Herndon 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) Deciding whether to use a belt or not is where your Ashburn and Herndon back pain specialist at Poulin Chiropractic of Herndon and Ashburn comes in to figure out what is best for each back pain sufferer. Each Ashburn and Herndon back pain sufferer – office worker, factory worker, family manager, etc. - is distinctive and must be considered individually. Putting a back brace on all workers to try 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-monitored, pre-activity motion, a deliberate way of enhancing spine stiffness to restrict spine displacement before doing a spine-demanding task. It seems to work according to researchers! Abdominal bracing is personally controlled. In a new study, abdominal bracing significantly lessened 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 restricted at the majority of lumbar spine levels when abrupt trunk flexion demands are met with abdominal bracing. (2) It is worth knowing how to do! Poulin Chiropractic of Herndon and Ashburn is prepared to show you how to do this worthy step as part of your Ashburn and Herndon chiropractic treatment plan!
SPINAL MANIPULATION WORKS FOR BACK PAIN
Poulin Chiropractic of Herndon and Ashburn uses 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 importance 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 enable her to shovel snow!
Schedule your Ashburn and Herndon chiropractic visit soon. We help our Ashburn and Herndon workers and weekend warriors prevent and recuperate from spine pain.
