Rosenberg Wellness Center Cautions Back Pain Sufferers About Lifting and Flexion
Controversy. There is 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 New York City chiropractor cautions New York City back pain patients to cautiously bend, lift and twist as these start low back pain for lots of us. Rosenberg Wellness Center still does. New 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 numerous studies about the effect of lumbar spine flexion lifting and its impact 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 categories of people. They studied two kinds of people: those with and those without back pain. (1) Other research projects studied specific kinds of people.
FLEXION LIFTING: INFLUENTIAL FOR WORKERS
Researchers concluded that the effect 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 wasn’t affected by the quantity of time they spent bending forward. They found 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 and again at one year. They hoped 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) Rosenberg Wellness Center works to ensure our work environment is stress-less and low-back-pain-reducing for everyone, our staff and our New York City 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 shares 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 New York City chiropractic care appointment with Rosenberg Wellness Center. Controversy aside, low back pain due to work environments that demand flexion bending and lifting can be helped at Rosenberg Wellness Center.
