Apple Country Chiropractic Cautions Back Pain Sufferers About Lifting and Flexion
Controversy. There is always controversy in medicine. Controversy can also move medicine toward clarity. Such is the case of lifting in a flexed position and its effect on your spine. Your Williamson chiropractor cautions Williamson back pain patients to cautiously bend, lift and twist as these create low back pain for lots of us. Apple Country Chiropractic still does. Recent studies explain more about the effects of flexion and lifting on the spine and its experience of back pain.
FLEXION LIFTING: NO INFLUENCE
A new research study examined several studies about the impact lumbar spine flexion has and its impact on low back pain onset/persistence. Researchers discovered that lumbar spine flexion lifting was not a determining factor for people with and without low back pain. These studies were not specific as to categories of people. They looked at two kinds of people: those with and those without back pain. (1) Other research projects studied 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 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 did not). (2) Warehouse workers’ experience of low back pain is affected by their lifting capacity and psychosocial work environment. Researchers asked workers via text 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 assist in preventing low back pain and lessen stress. (3) Apple Country Chiropractic works to ensure our work environment is stress-less and low-back-pain-reducing for everyone, our staff and our Williamson 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 shares how The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management managed relief for a construction worker with low back pain whose job surely taxes his spine!
Schedule a back-pain-relieving Williamson chiropractic care appointment with Apple Country Chiropractic. Controversy aside, low back pain attributable to work environments that demand flexion bending and lifting can be helped at Apple Country Chiropractic.
