No Couch Potatos allowed here - Get off the Couch and ENJOY YOUR BACK, NECK or BACK NECK BODY BRACE

One thing that I notice is that what your health care provider gives you the back brace, neck brace or back neck body brace for is to immobilize the area for healing or pain. However there is another reason that goes along with this. That is to help you move around and enjoy life while you are healing or now that the pain is reduced. I have noticed a tendency of persons that are required to wear a back brace, neck brace or back neck body brace to just stay in the house on the couch or at the computer. They don’t want to be seen in public with their back brace, neck brace or back neck body brace. It should be the opposite. Learn to enjoy you back brace, neck brace or back neck body brace. Let your back brace, neck brace or back neck body brace be your best friend. Your brace is helping you (it should be). If it isn’t you need an immediate return to your health care provider. If you just sit around the house and wonder “how awful it looks” or “what are people thinking” or “it’s showing through my cloths” you are not going to enjoy life. Check with your doctor or health care provider and see how much activity and what activity you are allowed. This is particularly true for persons who wear a back brace, neck brace or back neck body brace twenty four hours a day with only short breaks out of the brace. The more activity you have the happier you are going to be. As you become more active, in particular going out in public with your brace, you are going to get used to wearing the brace and doing activities in your brace in public. Pretty soon you you will forget you are wearing a brace. Well, maybe not, but you won’t care anymore. You won’t care what other people think. Oh now and then someone, especially someone that you know may ask you “what’s that” or “what happened to your back or neck?” Oh, here is the best one yet, “you are wearing a body brace.” A good response might be, “yes and I see that you are wearing shoes today.” Try to resume as many as your normal activities that you enjoyed before you had your neck brace or back neck body brace with the approval of your healthcare provider. If you enjoyed swimming resume swimming as you are permitted. If you just enjoy going out with friends and family resume those activities. You may need another brace to go into the water if the brace you have would be damaged by water. Do some research on the type of brace you need. Remember you are your best advocate as to the proper brace you need to enjoy life to the fullest. You will find that there are back braces, neck braces or back neck body braces that don’t absorb much water and some that are actually made to be worn in the water. If you can, it is good to have at least two braces of the same type. If you have at least two braces of the same type every twenty for hours you should change braces and let the one that you have been wearing dry for twenty for hours. This will get rid of the moisture that accumulates in the lining of the brace between the skin and the lining of the brace. Another idea is say you are required to wear a back brace, neck brace or back neck body brace. It is a good idea to have two different brands or styles of the back brace, neck brace or back neck body brace you are wearing. This is because each back brace, neck brace or back neck body brace acts with different forces on your body, skin and mussels. If you switch braces you will get a break from those specific forces and have a bit of a rest because the brace you just put on is acting in just a slightly different way when it applies forces against your body, skin and mussels. You will be surprised. This changing of the back brace, neck brace or back neck body brace you are wearing can actually have a refreshing effect on you! This however should only be done under the strict supervision and approval of your health care provider and not be done until you check with your health care provider. Refreshing, that is correct! Get as active as you can and as active as your doctor or health care provider will allow you to be in your back brace, neck brace or back neck body brace! It will get you out of the house and a much fresher and improved look on life. You will like yourself better and so will your friends and family because they will see that you are enjoying yourself, enjoying life to the fullest and not letting your back brace, neck brace or back neck body brace you are wearing stop you from doing things. Above are pictures of normal people in every day activities wearing back braces, neck braces or back neck body braces enjoying life to the fullest!