Controversy. There’s oftentimes
controversy in medicine. Controversy can also move medicine toward
clarity. Such is the case of flexed lifting
and its effect on your spine. Your McHenry chiropractor
cautions McHenry back pain patients to carefully
bend, lift and twist as these start low back pain for
many. OrthoIllinois Chiropractic 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 examined
a number of studies about the effect of lumbar spine flexion lifting and its influence
on low back pain onset/persistence. Researchers discovered that
lumbar spine flexion lifting wasn’t a determining factor
for people with and without low back pain. These studies were
not specific as to types of people. They looked at
two types of people: those with and those without back pain. (1)
Other research projects looked at 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 particular factors of workers.
They noticed 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 didn’t). (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 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 assist in preventing low back pain and lessen stress. (3) OrthoIllinois Chiropractic
works to ensure our work environment is stress-less and low-back-pain-reducing
for everyone, our staff and our McHenry chiropractic patients equally!
CONTACT OrthoIllinois Chiropractic
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 of low back pain for a
construction worker whose job certainly strains
his spine!
Schedule a back-pain-relieving McHenry
chiropractic care appointment with OrthoIllinois Chiropractic. Controversy aside, low back
pain attributable to work environments that require
flexion bending and lifting can be helped at
OrthoIllinois Chiropractic.
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