Controversy. There is oftentimes
controversy in medicine. Controversy can also push medicine toward
clarity. Such is the case of lifting in a flexed position
and its effect on your spine. Your Baton Rouge chiropractor
cautions Baton Rouge back pain patients to carefully
bend, lift and twist as these create low back pain for
lots of us. Spine & Sports Rehab Center still does. New studies explain
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
a number of studies about the effect of lumbar spine flexion lifting and its influence
on low back pain onset/persistence. Researchers found that
lumbar spine flexion lifting wasn’t a determining factor
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 research projects looked at specific types
of people.
FLEXION LIFTING: INFLUENTIAL FOR WORKERS
Researchers decided 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
was not influenced by the amount of
time they spent bending forward. They found that
healthcare workers’ experience of low back pain was affected by
the angle of forward bending (more than or equal to 30 degrees prompted
low back pain while over 60 degree did not). (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 anticipated 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) Spine & Sports Rehab Center
works to make sure 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 managed
relief for a construction worker with low back pain whose job certainly taxes
his spine!
Schedule a back-pain-relieving Baton Rouge
chiropractic care appointment with Spine & Sports Rehab Center. Controversy aside, low back
pain attributable to work environments that require
flexion bending and lifting can be well-managed at
Spine & Sports Rehab Center.
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