Controversy. There is always
controversy in medicine. Controversy can also move medicine to
clarity. Such is the case of flexed lifting
and its effect on your spine. Your Minster chiropractor
cautions Minster back pain patients to cautiously
bend, lift and twist as these initiate low back pain for
lots of us. Minster Chiropractic Center 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
A new research study analyzed
numerous 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 was not a differentiator
for people with and without low back pain. These investigations weren’t specific as to types of people. They looked at
two kinds of people: those with and those without back pain. (1)
Other research projects studied specific kinds
of people.
FLEXION LIFTING: INFLUENTIAL FOR WORKERS
Researchers concluded that the result
of forward bending on low back pain depended on the kind
of job, gender and other such specific factors of workers.
They noticed that construction workers’ experience of low back pain
was not influenced by the quantity of
time they spent bending forward. They discovered that
healthcare workers’ experience of low back pain was altered 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 influenced 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 and again
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) Minster Chiropractic Center
works to make sure our work environment is stress-less and low-back-pain-reducing
for everyone, our staff and our Minster 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 Minster
chiropractic care appointment with Minster Chiropractic Center. Controversy aside, low back
pain attributable to work environments that demand
flexion bending and lifting can be helped at
Minster Chiropractic Center.
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