Eine gesunde Änderung des Lebensstils könnte Menschen helfen, die sich wegen chronischer Schmerzen im unteren Rücken behandeln lassen wollen, heißt es in einer Studie an Menschen mit Rückenschmerzen, die auch mindestens ein Lebensstilrisiko hatten, das ihre Rückenschmerzen beeinflussen könnte, wie etwa schlechte Ernährung, Bewegungsmangel, Übergewicht oder Rauchen.
https://www.scimex.org/newsfeed/adopting-a-healthier-lifestyle-could-help-manage-lower-back-pain
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I’ve linked to the news release in the post above. In this comment, for those interested, here’s the link to the peer reviewed journal article:
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2828920
From the linked article:
Making healthy lifestyle changes could help people seeking treatment for chronic lower back pain, according to Australian researchers. The team recruited 346 people affected by chronic back pain who also had at least one lifestyle risk that could be influencing their back pain such as poor diet, inactivity, overweight or smoking. Half the participants were given usual physio care for their back pain, while the other half were given care that also focused on lifestyle interventions including weight, physical activity and diet coaching, and quit-smoking resources. After six months, the researchers say the patients with the lifestyle coaching reported a greater average reduction in back pain-related disability compared to the regular care group. They say this means targeting lifestyle risks associated with back pain could lead to small additional health benefits for those seeking treatment.
If you have chronic lower back pain I would highly recommend stretching your legs. As in, touch your toes, kind of stretch your legs. I had chronic lower back pain throughout my early twenties and being able to touch my toes significantly reduced it.
I know this is r science but this might be helpful to someone:
I was struggling with lower back pain for the past few years along with a super stiff back. Bending over was terrible both painful and lower back muscle weakness. Laying in bed even hurt when waking up. Even rolling over was difficult my back was so stiff. I swear it was like I was 90 years old and I’m young.
Turns out sitting in a chair for 10+ hours a day with poor lumbar support was causing serious inflammation. I added a thick memory foam pillow behind me so my back wasn’t in the shape of a C (when looking at me from the side) all day. Add in daily walks, a better chair (still with pillow), stretching hamstring muscles a few times a day, stop slouching when sitting, and GETTING UP every hour to walk around pretty much fixed it. Also drink water and not 10 cups of coffee, hydration is important.
As an RMT I see tons of clients with low back pain.
Even if it’s from a herniated or bulging disc, you can SIGNIFICANTLY reduce your pain over time by doing a set of exercises called McGill’s Big Three.
If you have low back pain, please, I implore you, start doing these exercises every morning.
And people get funding for this.
Everything is connected. Not least by fascia and tendons. Excess weight loads joints. However, victim
Shaming is a poor choice and yields no benefits. How about we actually help people?
I work in a warehouse and even on days with slow work flow my back is killing me.
I stretch multiple times a day, use proper lifting, exercise a medium amount at home, use lumbar support both in my car and forklift, have a very good mattress- still pain all the time.
So the same stuff that causes every other problem
Interesting that smoking is a lifestyle risk for back pain – is that some sort of inflamatory response? I always said that smoking helped my back – when I quit smoking I was no longer getting up from my desk for a break to go out for a smoke. Obviously quitting was the best health choice overall, but it really made it clear that sitting for 4h at a time, twice per day, is not at all good for you either
If you exercise and have lower back or hip pain, try removing any exercises that use only one side of your body at a time, like lunges. You may be surprised that it quickly stops irritating your hip and SI joint and you may end up pain free fairly quickly.
As soon as I lost weight and started weight lifting, that cured my backpain more than anything I tried. But losing weight as a medically bipolar individual who knew not of a mother’s love, but tasted regularly the sweet love of brownies, I think it was more difficult than I give myself credit for.