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Preventing Low Back Pain: Understanding the Top Risk Factors and How to Avoid Recurring Pain

Preventing Low Back Pain: Understanding the Top Risk Factors and How to Avoid Recurring Pain


Risk factors for low back pain- What you can do to avoid your pain coming back
Risk factors for low back pain- What you can do to avoid your pain coming back

Low back pain is pain and discomfort originating in the waist, and may not have specific causes or structural factors. Pain may also radiate down the legs


Around 4 in 5 Adults have reported a history of low back pain, particularly those under 45 years of age.


The research looked into those ages between 18 - 60 to look into risk factors for nonspecific low back pain and found the following risk factors


- Being over 30

- Female

- Having a BMI of 24 or higher

- Having a longer education time

- Being Married

- Having a history of low back pain

- Engaging in heavy labor

- Maintaining a FIXED working posture ( Desk Job, Standing at a cashier all day)

- Exposure to vibration sources


However


They also found that exercising at least twice a week and having a good mental state were found to reduce the risk of nonspecific low back pain. .





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Reference

Research article

  • Open Access

  • Published: 29 July 2023

Risk factors analysis and risk prediction model construction of non-specific low back pain: an ambidirectional cohort study

  • Wenjie Lu,

  • Zecheng Shen,

  • Yunlin Chen,

  • Xudong Hu,

  • Chaoyue Ruan,

  • Weihu Ma &

  • Weiyu Jiang

Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery and Research volume 18, Article number: 545 (2023)


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