Controversy. There’s oftentimes
controversy in medicine. Controversy can also push medicine to
clarity. Such is the case of flexed lifting
and its impact on your spine. Your Largo chiropractor
cautions Largo back pain patients to carefully
bend, lift and twist as these create low back pain for
lots of us. Hollstrom & Associates Inc 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
numerous studies about the impact lumbar spine
flexion has and its influence
on low back pain onset/persistence. Researchers discovered that
lumbar spine flexion lifting was not a differentiator
for people with and without low back pain. These studies weren’t specific as to types of people. They studied
two kinds of people: those with and those without back pain. (1)
Other studies 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 amount of
time they spent bending forward. They discovered 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 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 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 lessen stress. (3) Hollstrom & Associates Inc
works to make sure our work environment is stress-less and low-back-pain-reducing
for everyone, our staff and our Largo chiropractic patients alike!
CONTACT Hollstrom & Associates Inc
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 of low back pain for a
construction worker whose job certainly taxes
his spine!
Schedule a back-pain-relieving Largo
chiropractic care appointment with Hollstrom & Associates Inc. Controversy aside, low back
pain due to work environments that require
flexion bending and lifting can be helped at
Hollstrom & Associates Inc.
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