Baton Rouge Chiropractic Incorporates Abdominal Bracing and Back Brace Wearing for Patients to Protect Their Spines
Daily laborer or weekend warrior…how to do prepare for spine-demanding chores? What do you do when you have to move a weighty box? Get the back brace or brace yourself? The “brace yourself” option may be the superior approach! Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers recommends back braces for back pain patients who may be helped by their support. We also suggest self-controlled actions to Baton Rouge back pain sufferers to safeguard the spine when its use is demanded (hefting boxes, digging holes, raking, etc.)
BACK BRACES FOR BACK PAIN PREVENTION: Not All It Seems
Asymptomatic workers were directed to wear back belts at work with the intention of lessening low back pain or injury. 1380 published medical studies were reviewed. 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 use either. (1) Mind you, this review was of back brace use by asymptomatic workers. In this circumstance, the back belt is not for everyone. Now for Baton Rouge 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) Deciding whether to use a belt or not is where your Baton Rouge back pain specialist at Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers comes in to figure out what is best for each back pain sufferer. Each Baton Rouge back pain sufferer – office worker, factory worker, family manager, etc. - is unique and must be addressed individually. Having all workers wear a back brace in an effort 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-monitored, pre-activity motion, a voluntary way of increasing spine stiffness to limit 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 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 activated all abdominal and back muscles. Flexion motion was limited at most of lumbar spine levels when abrupt trunk flexion demands are encountered with abdominal bracing. (2) It is worth knowing how to do! Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers is prepared to show you how to do this worthy step as part of your Baton Rouge chiropractic treatment plan!
SPINAL MANIPULATION WORKS FOR BACK PAIN
Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers offers 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 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 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 be able to shovel snow!
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