Eighty percent of people will experience back pain at some point during their lives. It's one of the most common health challenges, yet many people fail to find lasting relief, even after seeking medical help.
If you visit a doctor for back pain, you're likely to receive a prescription as a solution. Acetaminophen (Tylenol) is the recommended first-line drug treatment for back pain, despite the fact that a recent systematic review and meta-analysis found it to be ineffective for this purpose.
Chris Maher, a physical therapist and researcher at the University of Sydney in Australia told NPR:
"We've got this perverse incentive in our health care system where we encourage people to innovate in terms of drugs, but we don't have the same system to get people to innovate in terms of physical activity."
Perhaps if we did, there would be a lot fewer people struggling with chronic back pain.
Exercise Works for Reducing Your Risk of Back Pain
Maher and colleagues reviewed 21 studies, which included more than 30,000 people, to determine what really works for preventing low back pain. Commonly recommended back belts and shoe insoles didn't help but exercise did.
Among people who had experienced back pain, those who exercised had a 25 percent to 40 percent lower risk of having another episode within a year than those who did no exercise.
Further, the type of exercise didn't seem to matter. Strength exercises, aerobics, flexibility
For example, when you sit for long periods of time, you typically end up shortening your iliacus, psoas, and
When these muscles are chronically short, it can cause severe pain when you stand up as they will effectively pull your lower back (lumbar) forward.
Imbalance among the anterior and posterior chains of muscles leads to many of the physical pains you experience. By
In one study of neck-pain patients, for instance, 30 percent of those who exercised became pain-free compared to just 13 percent of those treated with medication
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