In this article, we will discuss insoles for back pain.
There are times when insoles are used to prevent or treat back pain.
Some of you may have used them yourself or in your surroundings.
The paper presented here examines the effects of placebo, no intervention, or other interventions on the prevention and treatment of non-specific low back pain.
The study is to determine the effectiveness of shoe insoles in the prevention and treatment of non-specific low back pain.
What does the study say?
Since this paper is a search and review of multiple papers
We included randomized controlled trials that examined the use of insoles, both customized and not customized for you.Six studies were included that were randomized controlled trials.
Three studies examined the prevention of low back pain (2061 participants).
Three studies examined mixed populations (256 participants).
No treatment trials were found.
Results.
There was strong evidence that the use of insoles does not prevent low back pain.
There was limited evidence that the insoles reduced back pain or, conversely, shifted pain to the lower extremities.
Most trials looked at specific populations of young, active men.
There are no long-term treatment and prevention data.
Sahar T, Cohen MJ, Ne'eman V, Kandel L, Odebiyi DO, Lev I, Brezis M, Lahad A. Insoles for the prevention and treatment of low back pain. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2007, No. 4. Number: CD005275. doi: 10.1002 / 14651858.CD005275.pub2.
Conclusion
The results of the study indicate that there is no evidence that customizing insoles can prevent low back pain.At this stage, it has been suggested that there is no link between insoles and low back pain, but
However, it is said that the results of this study can be overturned if the thinking and theory changes.As a matter of fact, there was a time when I was passionate about customizing my insoles.
There was a time when I used myself as a test subject for six months to find out the level of fatigue, pain in my feet, and the distance I walked when I walked for an hour, because different manufacturers had different performance.
The results I got at that time were that there was no change. So, I decided to try it.
At present, I do not change the insoles from the existing ones.
In the study of functional physiology, anatomy and kinesiology, it is said that some symptoms can be changed by changing the load on the sole of the foot. This is what we are told.It's okay to blindly believe in something that works.
I think it's okay to blindly believe in something that works, but it's not okay for the people who provide the technology and knowledge to be blind to it.
I think we should look for the possibility of efficacy in things, given the results of these studies. I think so.
