Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers Cautions Back Pain Sufferers About Lifting and Flexion
Controversy. There is oftentimes controversy in medicine. Controversy can also push medicine to clarity. Such is the case of lifting in a flexed position and its impact on your spine. Your Baton Rouge chiropractor cautions Baton Rouge back pain patients to cautiously bend, lift and twist as these initiate low back pain for many. Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers still does. New studies describe more about the effects of flexion and lifting on the spine and its experience of back pain.
FLEXION LIFTING: NO INFLUENCE
The latest research study analyzed several studies about the impact lumbar spine flexion has and its influence 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 were not specific as to types of people. They studied two types of people: those with and those without back pain. (1) Other studies looked at specific types of people.
FLEXION LIFTING: INFLUENTIAL FOR WORKERS
Researchers concluded that the effect of forward bending on low back pain depended on the kind of job, gender and other such particular factors of workers. They found that construction workers’ experience of low back pain wasn’t influenced by the amount of time they spent bending forward. They discovered that healthcare workers’ experience of low back pain was affected 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 affected 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) Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers works to ensure our work environment is stress-less and low-back-pain-reducing for everyone, our staff and our Baton Rouge chiropractic patients equally!
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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 surely taxes his spine!
Schedule a back-pain-relieving Baton Rouge chiropractic care appointment with Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers. Controversy aside, low back pain due to work environments that demand flexion bending and lifting can be helped at Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers.
