Why does it hurt? How do you know if it’s serious? And do manual therapies help?
In any given month, nearly a third of the adult population in the developed world has back pain. After coughs and colds, low back pain (LBP) is the most common reason for visits to the GP. It hurts like mad, but most of us recover within a week – further flare-ups are common but full recovery is the norm after each bout, though up to 40% of people with LBP will have pain lasting more than three months. Despite a host of treatment options including acupuncture, manual therapies, drugs, injections and surgery, nothing is more likely to work than staying active. Just when you least feel like it, and it hurts the most, is when experts say you have to get moving.
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from Health & wellbeing | The Guardian http://ift.tt/1ND9gpp
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