Back belts are not useful safety devices, according to two University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill experts who specialize in back pain and related ailments.
“It is time to focus on the psychosocial elements of life, on and off the job, that render too much of back pain so intolerable that it is memorable and even incapacitating," wrote Dr. Nortin M. Hadler and Timothy S. Carey in the Dec. 6 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association. Hadler and Carey are professors of medicine at the UNC-CH School of Medicine.