According to a US News and World Report article stating that back pain is pretty common, 80% of adults will experience such pain at some time point in their lives and 30% will suffer back pain on any given day.
There is now a way to ease many those pain-in-the-back problems.
Did you know: That back pain is the second most common reason given for missing work, the first reason being upper-respiratory problems? That each year one out of two working Americans will admit to having some back pain symptoms? That most back pain problems are not caused by a serious condition like infection, inflammatory arthritis, cancer or fracture, but are non-organic, or simply mechanical issues, which means occurring from an individual’s everyday movements? That every year Americans will spend at least $50 billion on back pain?
There is a simple way to ease millions of sore backs.
We should understand that the back is not a single, organ or muscle but a complicated and wonderfully designed structure of bones, ligaments, muscles and joints all working together while forming the core and foundation of the body. The back has many moving parts that are pulling, sliding, stretching and compressing together, allowing a person to move, twist, squat, and turn around his axis freely.
However, if there is an issue with the spine, such as stained (strained) muscles, irritated joints or sprained ligaments that can cause a misalignment, then the freedom of movement can be limited and painful. A spinal misalignment can be caused by a violent trauma from sports or accidents but sometime even a simple movement like bending down to pick a pencil off the floor or slightly bumping into something when walking can be the cause. Conditions such as poor posture, arthritis, and obesity can also complicate or be the cause of back pain.
Many of these painful conditions can be helped with a portable dynamic back support system that offers lumbar support while also helping to reorient the lumbar region back to within the original normal range of motion.
According to a summary of a Harvard Medical School paper a “curved and firm surface” pad can provide a proprioceptive and apparent pain blocking feature, adding it appears to be a desirable feature of an orthosis.
The Back-A-Line Dynamic Back Support is the only device which offers a back support with a patented curved and firm lumbar support pad. Whereas the typical elastic “girdle” back belts claim to improve posture by acting as a physical reminder to lift properly, the reality is that they will ‘squeeze’ the existing poor posture and cannot correct the spinal. The elastic back belts are supposed to be tightened when lifted and loosened when not lifting, as lifting is not the only risk to the spine, such as “picking up a pencil” as suggested earlier. Using an elastic back belt to help support a painful or sore back can cause atrophy of muscles due to the muscles’ inactivity whenever the girdle is tightened
The Back-A-Line Dynamic Back Support is a non-stretch device that due to its unique curved and firm lumbar pad can offer back support while subconsciously correcting the spinal mechanics and creating a dynamic known as “proprioceptive feedback’, promoting the pain-free, natural and conservative path to health for acute and chronic back pain.
Proprioceptive feedback is a dynamic where the tissues of the spine reorient their positioning from a painful misalignment back to the natural and healthy safe range of motion. The patented curved and firm lumbar pad embedded in a non-elastic Back-A-Line back support promotes this subconscious response while creating correct muscle memory. Repeating daily body movements when wearing a Back-A-Line back belt either at work or home will incite new muscle memory for the spinal tissues, significantly reducing future risks, while also activating the abdominal muscles to rigidify the trunk, or core.
While Back-A-Line’s basic model is effective for less-severe conditions, they now offer an “enhanced” version for chronic or severe back issues, where prior damage, before the postural correction, resulted in ongoing pain, sufficient to compromise daily activities. This enhanced version with patented Bioflex® magnets, the original therapeutic magnet created exclusively for human medical use. These flexible, lumbar-conforming magnets offer a magnetic field that includes concentric circles of alternating polarity that creates a contiguous magnetic field.
Bioflex® magnets provide a concentric circle configuration of a constant and gradient field, assuring sufficient magnetic field dose is applied to the affected tissue damage, both the deep and superficial tissue. When combining the Back-A-Line Dynamic Back Support’s proprioceptive feedback with the BioFlex® magnets that induce vasodilation blood flow, oxygen and nutrients to the affected area, the synergistic support offers a quicker healing time of the painful lumbar region.
It must be noted that all back pain is not equal and in some cases the Back-A-Line Dynamic Back Support back belt will not be able to help back pain that directly resulted from internal organ diseases such as kidney infections, kidney stones bone loss or blood clots. That being said, a full outcome in many cases of lumbar pain, other than the internal organ diseases, can be achieved with a Back-A-Line/Bioflex combination back support without the use of toxic drugs or invasive surgery.
The following testimonials and studies are endorsements for the use of proprioceptive feedback and medically patented Bioflex® magnets.
Over the past 23 years, Back-A-Line has been worn by hundreds of thousands of people in all walks of life, such as people working at a desk, riding motorcycles, waitresses, people who drive cars, people who work in the garden, etc., and tested by a number of highly-rated academic institutions.
Back-A-Line (BAL) has been formally tested by over 2,000 participants in many US industries, showing a 75% reduction of back pain and fatigue among the workers.
The U.S. Army did a one year test of material off-loaders in a combat zone which resulted in a 61% reduction of back injuries and test by major airlines of baggage handlers resulted in a 49% reduction of back injuries.
The following studies reflect the proven medical advantage of the Back-A-Line Dynamic Back Support back belt.
BACK-A-LINE DYNAMIC BACK SUPPORT
A Review of the New ORTHO-MOLD SPINAL ORTHOSES
A Prospective Study of Back Belts for Prevention of Back Pain and Injury
Low Intensity Permanent Magnets in the Treatment of Chronic Lumbar Radicular Pain
Low Intensity Permanent Magnets in the Treatment of Chronic Lumbar Radicular Pain
Bill Stock
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Hulet Smith, OT
