“How long should you wear a back brace for back pain?”

Hello and good morning. Thanks for sharing your back brace question with the FATD community. A history and physical examination is a great way to get a better understanding about your back pain. Generally, back pain sufferers feel a back brace helps them experience less pain. This is open for discussion. There are many types of back braces, so I am not sure which one you are currently using. I generally think braces are used to help protect injured ligaments (the small ropes holding one bone to another). Therefore, it is not very common to suffer a back injury that damages the ligaments so much to need back brace support. Therefore, a back brace is often used to help control pain. Back pain is quite common and comes in different varieties. A brace can help people feel a bit less pain, but it certainly does not go to the root cause of the pain. The root cause, often, is due to a muscular imbalance in the postural muscles of the lower back, or simply a weakness of the supportive muscles of the lower back. That is: deconditioned or weak core muscles. Building endurance by conditioning the core muscles (and making them stronger over time) is the best way to diminish pain and prolong a highly-functional lower back. I like to use this site to help bring the right exercises to your phone. https://www.pop-doc.com/browse.cgi?category1=Lower%20Back For the back brace usage: no more than 3 weeks in a row, and not worn to sleep/bed. The more one is used, the more lazy the core muscles become, and the more dependent one gets on the back brace. I hope this helps. David T. Neuman, MD FAAOS Sports Medicine and Orthopedics 131 West 33rd St. Suite 12-E New York, NY 10001 P: 212-813-3634 F: 212-857-9411 www.nysportscare.com<http://www.nysportscare.com/> Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail communication and any attachments may contain confidential and privileged information for the use of the designated recipients named above. It may contain confidential and protected health information subject to privacy regulations such as the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA). If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that you have received this communication in error and that any review, disclosure, dissemination, distribution or copying of it or its contents is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify me immediately by replying to this message and deleting it from your computer.

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You need to do core abdominal muscle exercise along with the brace.Stop the brace when the pain is gone.