Amelia Chiropractic Clinic Cautions Back Pain Sufferers About Lifting and Flexion

Controversy. There’s oftentimes controversy in medicine. Controversy can also move medicine toward clarity. Such is the case of flexed lifting and its impact on your spine. Your Fernandina Beach chiropractor cautions Fernandina Beach back pain patients to cautiously bend, lift and twist as these initiate low back pain for many. Amelia Chiropractic Clinic 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

The latest research study examined a number of studies about the impact lumbar spine flexion has and its influence on low back pain onset/persistence. Researchers found that lumbar spine flexion lifting wasn’t a differentiator for people with and without low back pain. These investigations weren’t specific as to categories of people. They studied two types of people: those with and those without back pain. (1) Other studies 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 type of job, gender and other such specific factors of workers. They found 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 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 texted workers asking 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 design of the work week (work days vs rest days) and a set reasonable maximum lifting threshold per day will help prevent low back pain and reduce stress. (3) Amelia Chiropractic Clinic works to ensure our work environment is stress-less and low-back-pain-diminishing for everyone, our staff and our Fernandina Beach chiropractic patients alike!

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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 surely taxes his spine!

Schedule a back-pain-relieving Fernandina Beach chiropractic care appointment with Amelia Chiropractic Clinic. Controversy aside, low back pain due to work environments that require flexion bending and lifting can be helped at Amelia Chiropractic Clinic.