There is already enough to worry about when it comes to back pain. It is something that most Australians will have to experience at some point in their lives, and it can really limit the activities that you love to do.
A new study from the European Journal of Pain published results of a back pain study that shows “Older people reporting spinal pain have a 13 per cent increased risk of mortality per year lived, but the connection is not causal”.
Some of the factors that lead to this change are the effects that back pain has on one’s life. That includes loneliness from being secluded at home, depression because of the pain and the seclusion, lack of sleep because of the pain, and inactivity because they just are not able to engage in exercise.
The author of the study doesn’t want people to panic over their back pain but instead rethink of it’s dealt with. A different study revealed not too long ago that most back pain drugs do little to help the pain in the long run and cause more side effects.
A senior researcher from the University’s Faculty of Health Sciences told Fairfax Media, “If you do have back pain, you should seek help to control your symptoms and not stop doing the right things for your body and your mind.
“In a nutshell, the most effective way of preventing back pain is physical activity. But the right type of physical activity … We have some evidence that moderate to vigorous leisure exercise helps to prevent back pain – a good walking program, strength exercises under supervision and improving your sleep patterns.”