Common misunderstanding of wearing back brace

Medi-Rehatek will introduce the common misunderstanding of wearing back brace as below today.

1.It can be safely down to activities when putting on the waist brace?

Acute lumbar disc herniation patients with severe low back and leg pain symptom mainly should rest on bed, who not to replace the rest on bed by wearing back brace. But patients go to toilet or have necessary activities on the ground,who should wear back brace o protect the waist.

2. Wearing back brace for 24 hours a day

Some patients rest on bed who also wear waist brace and do not relax, this approach is wrong. When patients lie in bed, because the lumbar intervertebral disc is not affected by gravity, the waist brace will not play a therapeutic effect, but it offers a psychological comfort. 

The 24-hour non-stop wearing waist brace will cause waist muscle atrophy of disuse, so that patients have a sense of dependence. Once patients take off the back brace,the feeling of dependence will increase,that is not conducive to the rehabilitation of patients. 

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