Like millions of others, your back is no stranger to pain, and this pain can have no small impact on your ability to enjoy life. If you want the next year to be focused on happiness and health rather than back pain, we’ve got you covered,
The fact is that back pain affects nearly 40% of adults in the United States at some point, and lower back pain is one of the leading causes of disability on a global scale.
These numbers certainly reflect what we see here at Neuropathy & Pain Centers of Texas, where our team of pain management specialists routinely helps patients find relief from back pain.
To get you on the road to better back health, we want you to consider the following 4 strategies.
The foundational support in your back is your spine, but it hardly works alone. Surrounding your spine are groups of muscles that can help take much of the workload off of your spine, which can go a very long way toward avoiding back pain.
If you’re making health-minded new year’s resolutions that include exercising more, please add targeted back and core muscle exercises. To get you started, these exercises are great for preventing lower back pain.
Your spine can carry a certain weight range comfortably, but when you exceed that, you place more pressure on the structures in your back, which is a quick road to back pain. A new report has found that, by 2050, a whopping 250 million Americans will be overweight or obese, which means millions of people are at risk for back pain.
If you’re carrying excess pounds, losing this added weight is one of the best things you can do for your back — and your overall health.
Humans were originally designed to move around, but we’ve become a highly sedentary society that spends a good deal of time sitting. And our backs are paying the price.
If you sit for hours each day, it’s a good idea to get your posture in order by:
To ensure that you don’t slip into a slouching position, set an alarm for every hour. When the alarm goes off, get up and stretch and move for at least five minutes and then sit back down and get into the right position again.
If you do develop back pain, it’s very important that you get the right diagnosis so that, together, we can address the problem correctly.
For example, some back pain issues are progressive, such as degenerative disc disease that can lead to sciatica. Knowing when you have a progressive condition that can spell back pain down the road is important because we can focus our efforts on halting the degeneration.
Conversely, if you have an acute muscle strain, our focus will be on short-term relief as the soft tissues heal.
So, getting the right back pain team in your corner is important for the future health of your spine.
Such teams can be found at any office of the Neuropathy & Pain Centers of Texas. We are located in Waco, Arlington, Wichita Falls, and Fort Worth, Texas. For expert diagnosis and treatment of your back pain, or for more information about preventing back pain, please don’t hesitate to call or message us today to schedule an appointment.
