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La Grande Chiropractic Incorporates Abdominal Bracing and Back Brace Wearing for Patients to Protect Their Spines

Daily laborer or weekend warrior…how to do get ready for spine-demanding tasks? What do you do when you need to relocate a weighty box? Get the back brace or brace yourself? The “brace yourself” option may be the superior approach! Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC proposes back braces for back pain patients who may benefit from their support. We also propose self-controlled actions to La Grande back pain sufferers to safeguard the spine when its use is demanded (moving boxes, digging holes, vacuuming, etc.)

BACK BRACES FOR BACK PAIN PREVENTION: Not All It Seems

Asymptomatic workers were directed to wear back belts at work with the intention of lessening low back pain or injury. 1380 published medical studies were reviewed. Reviewers uncovered no consistent evidence for back brace use to stop low back pain or occupational back pain in workers. Absenteeism wasn’t decreased with back belt wearing either. (1) Mind you, this review was of back brace use by asymptomatic workers. In this situation, the back belt is not for everyone. Now for La Grande back pain sufferers, the back belt offers benefits. Non-rigid lumbar support belts are reported to help non-specific low back pain sufferers with their pain and disability. (3) Deciding whether to use a belt or not is where your La Grande back pain specialist at Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC comes in to determine what is optimal for each back pain sufferer. Each La Grande back pain sufferer – office worker, factory worker, family manager, etc. - is unique and must be addressed individually. Having all workers wear a back brace to try to reduce back pain for a few doesn’t work as this paper shows that a back brace may benefit 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 limit spine displacement ahead of a spine-demanding task. It seems to work according to researchers! Abdominal bracing is individually controlled. In a new study, abdominal bracing significantly lessened 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 activated all abdominal and back muscles. Flexion motion was limited at most of lumbar spine levels when challenging trunk flexion demands are met with abdominal bracing. (2) It’s worth knowing how to do! Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC is ready to show you how to do this worthy move as part of your La Grande chiropractic treatment plan!

SPINAL MANIPULATION WORKS FOR BACK PAIN

Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC offers 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 recuperated from her back pain episode with The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management and even be able to shovel snow!

Schedule your La Grande chiropractic visit soon. We help our La Grande workers and weekend warriors avert and recover from spine pain. 

 
Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC takes care of weekend warriors and daily laborers alike and directs them to the best way to protect their spines during work and projects.  
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