Vancouver Disc Centers 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 Vancouver chiropractor cautions Vancouver back pain patients to carefully bend, lift and twist as these start low back pain for lots of us. Vancouver Disc Centers still does. Recent 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 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 investigations weren’t specific as to categories of people. They looked at two kinds 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 effect of forward bending on low back pain depended on the type 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 quantity 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 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 and again 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) Vancouver Disc Centers works to ensure our work environment is stress-less and low-back-pain-reducing for everyone, our staff and our Vancouver 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 attained relief for a construction worker with low back pain whose job certainly taxes his spine!
Schedule a back-pain-relieving Vancouver chiropractic care appointment with Vancouver Disc Centers. Controversy aside, low back pain due to work environments that demand flexion bending and lifting can be helped at Vancouver Disc Centers.
