The port of a support belt would be inefficient to relieve the lumbar pains or to warn the injuries to the back, sustain some researchers hollandais1.
They analyzed 15 clinical tests with groups witnesses, led from 1975 to 2007 and having carried on 15 000 topics enduring various lumbar unrests, excluding the arthritis or the osteoarthritis.
According to their results, the port of a support belt does not provide any relief of the lumbar pain. He / it would not contribute either to reduce the periods of low back pain associated to the effort or to decrease absenteeism to work.
The authors of the survey to advise against the workers to wear such belts systematically to warn or to treat a pain of back.
To consult Above All
For Andre Plamondon, researcher to the institute of research in health and security of work (IRSST – Montreal), the port of a support belt is a personal choice.
He / it recommends to consult a professional of the pains of back before wearing such a belt however. "It is necessary to choose the good type of belt, he / it specifies. One must learn to carry it correctly and to the good time."
He / it is advised against otherwise to carry it a long time and in a systematic manner. "One thinks that the belt of support could provide a false sense of security to the worker who carries it, or even to cause a loss of the muscular tone naturally loaded to sustain the lumbar region", explain Andre Plamondon.
People affected by cardiovascular unrests must be even more cautious.
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