Nashua 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 relocate a heavy box? Reach for the back brace or brace yourself? The “brace yourself” option may be the better approach! Moriarty Chiropractic recommends back braces for back pain patients who may benefit from their support. We also propose self-controlled activities to Nashua back pain sufferers to safeguard the spine when its use is required (hefting boxes, digging holes, vacuuming, etc.)

BACK BRACES FOR BACK PAIN PREVENTION: Not All It Seems

Asymptomatic workers were told to wear back belts at work with the aim of decreasing low back pain or injury. 1380 published medical studies were considered. Reviewers found no consistent evidence for back brace use to prevent low back pain or occupational back pain in workers. Absenteeism was not decreased with back belt wearing either. (1) Mind you, this review was of back brace wearing by asymptomatic workers. In this situation, the back belt is not for everyone. Now for Nashua back pain sufferers, the back belt has advantages. Non-rigid lumbar support belts are reported to help non-specific low back pain sufferers with their pain and disability. (3) The decision of belt use is where your Nashua back pain specialist at Moriarty Chiropractic comes in to figure out what is best for each back pain sufferer. Each Nashua back pain sufferer – office worker, factory worker, family manager, etc. - is unique and must be considered individually. Putting a back brace on all workers in an effort to decrease back pain for a few doesn’t work as this paper demonstrates that a back brace may work for some but not all.

ABDOMINAL BRACING MAY WORK BETTER

Abdominal bracing is a self-controlled, pre-activity motion, a deliberate way of enhancing spine stiffness to constrain spine displacement ahead of a spine-demanding task. It appears to work according to researchers! Abdominal bracing is individually controlled. In a new study, abdominal bracing significantly reduced 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 stimulated all abdominal and back muscles. Flexion motion was restricted at most of lumbar spine levels when abrupt trunk flexion demands are encountered with abdominal bracing. (2) It is worth knowing how to do! Moriarty Chiropractic is eager to demonstrate you how to do this worthy move as part of your Nashua chiropractic treatment plan!

SPINAL MANIPULATION WORKS FOR BACK PAIN

Moriarty Chiropractic uses a comprehensive chiropractic treatment plan for those times when the back pain just will not go away. When work duties or chores result in 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 get 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 importance of helping a patient be able to do something like walking to help herself as she recovered from her back pain episode with The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management and even enable her to shovel snow!

Schedule your Nashua chiropractic visit soon. We help our Nashua workers and weekend warriors avert and recuperate from spine pain.