Controversy. There’s oftentimes
controversy in medicine. Controversy can also push medicine to
clarity. Such is the case of lifting in a flexed position
and its impact on your spine. Your Richmond chiropractor
cautions Richmond back pain patients to carefully
bend, lift and twist as these start low back pain for
many. Johnson Chiropractic 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
A new research study analyzed
numerous studies about the impact lumbar spine
flexion has and its impact
on low back pain onset/persistence. Researchers found 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 types of people. They looked at
two types of people: those with and those without back pain. (1)
Other research projects studied specific types
of people.
FLEXION LIFTING: INFLUENTIAL FOR WORKERS
Researchers decided that the result
of forward bending on low back pain is determined by 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 affected by the quantity of
time they spent bending forward. They found that
healthcare workers’ experience of low back pain was altered 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 influenced by their
lifting capacity and psychosocial work environment. Researchers questioned workers via text about their low back
pain, mental stress, and bodily fatigue over the course of 3 weeks and again
at one year. They hoped that an improved 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) Johnson Chiropractic
works to make sure our work environment is stress-less and low-back-pain-diminishing
for everyone, our staff and our Richmond chiropractic patients alike!
CONTACT Johnson Chiropractic
Listen to this PODCAST
by Dr. Victor Shu on The
Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson. He shares
how The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management attained
relief for a construction worker with low back pain whose job certainly strains
his spine!
Schedule a back-pain-relieving Richmond
chiropractic care appointment with Johnson Chiropractic. Controversy aside, low back
pain due to work environments that demand
flexion bending and lifting can be helped at
Johnson Chiropractic.
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