Daily laborer or weekend warrior…how to do prepare
for spine-demanding tasks? What do you do when you must move a weighty package? Get the back brace or brace yourself? The “brace yourself” option
may be the superior approach! Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre proposes
back braces for back pain patients who may be helped by
their support. We also suggest self-controlled activities
to Toronto back pain sufferers to safeguard the spine
when its use is demanded (moving boxes, digging
holes, vacuuming, etc.)
BACK BRACES FOR BACK PAIN PREVENTION:
Not All It Seems
Asymptomatic workers were told to wear back belts at work with the aim of lessening
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 wasn’t reduced with back
belt utilization 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 Toronto back pain sufferers, the back belt offers
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 Toronto back pain specialist at Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre comes in to determine what is best for each back pain sufferer. Each Toronto
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 attempt to reduce back pain for a few does not
work as this paper shows that a back brace may work
for some but not all.
ABDOMINAL BRACING MAY WORK BETTER
Abdominal bracing is a self-controlled,
pre-activity motion, a voluntary way of increasing
spine stiffness to constrain spine displacement ahead of a spine-demanding task. It seems to
work according to researchers! Abdominal bracing is individually
controlled. In a recent study, abdominal bracing significantly decreased
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 the majority
of lumbar spine levels when abrupt trunk flexion
demands are met with abdominal bracing. (2) It is
worth knowing how to do! Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre is prepared to demonstrate
you how to do this worthy movement as part of your Toronto
chiropractic treatment plan!
SPINAL MANIPULATION WORKS FOR BACK
PAIN
Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre uses
a comprehensive chiropractic treatment plan for those occasions
when the back pain just will not stop. 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.
CONTACT Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre
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
recuperated from her back pain episode with The Cox®
Technic System of Spinal Pain Management and even enable her to
shovel snow!
Schedule your Toronto chiropractic
appointment soon. We help our Toronto workers and
weekend warriors avert and recuperate from spine
pain.